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15 km2 glacier retreat in the last 35 years visualized on map.

A hidden secret that becomes water: Monitoring Patagonian Glacier Retreat

Centre PivotsCammalleri, C, M C Anderson, F Gao, C R Hain, and W P Kustas. 2014. “Mapping Daily Evapotranspiration at Field Scales over Rainfed and Irrigated Agricultural Areas Using Remote Sensing Data Fusion.” Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 186: 1–11. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agrformet.2013.11.001. D’Urso, Guido. 2001. Simulation and Management of On-Demand Irrigation Systems: A Combined Agrohydrological and Remote Sensing Approach. Wageningen: WU thesis 2961 Proefschrift Wageningen.

Mapping and Monitoring Irrigated Agriculture from Space

Source: Pleiades@CNES 2020.

Floods in Sudan - Space-based Flood Monitoring to Support Disaster Risk Management

Photo of Coral Reef

Remote sensing in managing, maintaining, and understanding coral reef ecosystems

Global Precipitation Measurements Constellations

Monitoring Precipitation from Space

Photo Source: ESA. While the water they release may affect the coastal ecosystem, harmful and non-harmful algae blooms can also greatly affect the desalination plants. In particular, the local phenomenon known as the ‘red tide’ has affected desalination plants over the last four years, causing severe damage and sometimes bringing operations to a halt. Satellite data can be used to identify and monitor red tide events.

Space technologies' role in marine monitoring and management

Sentinel-2 false-colour image of Lake Mondsee in Austria. The lake appears deep blue whereas the surrounding vegetated areas are coloured red due to the strong reflection of sunlight in the infra-red portion of the electro-magnetic spectrum

Water Quality Indicators – an Overview

Female Rally Participants

Women, water and space: The first geospatial rally for women in rural aqueducts

Tarbela Dam, Pakistan – part of the Indus Basin Project that resulted from the 1960 Indus Waters Treaty between India and Pakistan. Source: NASA

Hydro-diplomacy: The role of space-derived data in advancing water security

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