Monitoring the effects of land use and cover type changes on soil moisture using remote-sensing data: A case study in China's Yongding River basin

CATENA ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 82 (3) ◽  
pp. 135-145 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hong Wang ◽  
Xiaobing Li ◽  
Huiling Long ◽  
Xu Xu ◽  
Yun Bao
2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (15) ◽  
pp. 4160 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qin Liu ◽  
Tiange Shi

Ecological vulnerability assessment increases the knowledge of ecological status and contributes to formulating local plans of sustainable development. A methodology based on remote sensing data and spatial principal component analysis was introduced to discuss ecological vulnerability in the Toutun River Basin (TRB). Exploratory spatial data analysis and a geo-detector were employed to evaluate the spatial and temporal distribution characteristics of ecological vulnerability and detect the driving factors. Four results were presented: (1) During 2003 and 2017, the average values of humidity, greenness, and heat in TRB increased by 49.71%, 11.63%, and 6.51% respectively, and the average values of dryness decreased by 165.24%. However, the extreme differences in greenness, dryness, and heat tended to be obvious. (2) The study area was mainly dominated by a high and extreme vulnerability grade, and the ecological vulnerability grades showed the distribution pattern that the northern desert area was more vulnerable than the central artificial oasis, and the central artificial oasis was more vulnerable than the southern mountainous area. (3) Ecological vulnerability in TRB showed significant spatial autocorrelation characteristics, and the trend was enhanced. The spatial distribution of hot/cold spots presented the characteristics of “hot spot—cold spot—secondary hot spot—cold spot” from north to south. (4) The explanatory power of each factor of ecological vulnerability was temperature (0.5955) > land use (0.5701) > precipitation (0.5289) > elevation (0.4879) > slope (0.3660) > administrative division (0.1541). The interactions of any two factors showed a non-linear strengthening effect, among which, land use type ∩ elevation (0.7899), land use type ∩ precipitation (0.7867), and land use type ∩ temperature (0.7791) were the significant interaction for ecological vulnerability. Overall, remote sensing data contribute to realizing a quick and objective evaluation of ecological vulnerability and provide valuable information for decision making concerning ecology management and region development.


2018 ◽  
Vol 65 (3) ◽  
pp. 481-499 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rida Khellouk ◽  
Ahmed Barakat ◽  
Abdelghani Boudhar ◽  
Rachid Hadria ◽  
Hayat Lionboui ◽  
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2014 ◽  
Vol 716-717 ◽  
pp. 1064-1067
Author(s):  
Jing Wen Xu ◽  
Yu Peng Wang ◽  
Jun Fang Zhao ◽  
Fei Yu Pu ◽  
Peng Wang

In this paper, the correlation between fused data and original data, the measured soil and the precipitation data over Huaihe river basin by exploring the inversion of soil moisture from the time and space based on the method of multi-source remote sensing data fusion has been studied. In order to fuse the AMSR-E data which is all-day and all-weather and can penetrate the earth surface to some extent, with the MODIS data that can reflect the surface condition and temperature characteristics, the method of wavelet fusion was carried out in MATLAB. The conclusions of this study are listed as follows: (1) the inversion result of the fused data based on AMSE-E and MODIS is much better than a single remote sensing data inversion; (2) the fused data based on AMSE-E and MODIS is sensitive to soil moisture change trend when the seasons alternated every year, especially in the spring, summer and autumn.


2010 ◽  
Vol 7 (6) ◽  
pp. 8809-8835
Author(s):  
P. Meier ◽  
A. Frömelt ◽  
W. Kinzelbach

Abstract. Reliable real-time forecasts of the discharge can provide valuable information for the management of a river basin system. Sequential data assimilation using the Ensemble Kalman Filter provides a both efficient and robust tool for a real-time modeling framework. One key parameter in a hydrological system is the soil moisture which recently can be characterized by satellite based measurements. A forecasting framework for the prediction of discharges is developed and applied to three different sub-basins of the Zambezi River Basin. The model is solely based on remote sensing data providing soil moisture and rainfall estimates. The soil moisture product used is based on the back-scattering intensity of a radar signal measured by the radar scatterometer on board the ERS satellite. These soil moisture data correlate well with the measured discharge of the corresponding watershed if the data are shifted by a time lag which is dependent on the size and the dominant runoff process in the catchment. This time lag is the basis for the applicability of the soil moisture data for hydrological forecasts. The conceptual model developed is based on two storage compartments. The processes modeled include evaporation losses, infiltration and percolation. The application of this model in a real-time modeling framework yields good results in watersheds where the soil storage is an important factor. For the largest watershed a forecast over almost six weeks can be provided. However, the quality of the forecast increases significantly with decreasing prediction time. In watersheds with little soil storage and a quick response to rainfall events the performance is relatively poor.


2010 ◽  
Vol 1 (6) ◽  
pp. 1148-1157 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. Solaimani ◽  
M. Arekhi ◽  
R. Tamartash ◽  
M. Miryaghobzadeh

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