scholarly journals Small Water Body Detection and Water Quality Variations with Changing Human Activity Intensity in Wuhan

2022 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 200
Author(s):  
Lingjun Wang ◽  
Wanjuan Bie ◽  
Haocheng Li ◽  
Tanghong Liao ◽  
Xingxing Ding ◽  
...  

Small water bodies ranging in size from 1 to 50,000 m2, are numerous, widely distributed, and have various functions in water storage, agriculture, and fisheries. Small water bodies used for agriculture and fisheries are economically significant in China, hence it is important to properly identify and analyze them. In remote sensing technology, water body identification based on band analysis, image classification, and water indices are often designed for large, homogenous water bodies. Traditional water indices are often less accurate for small water bodies, which often contain submerged or floating plants or easily confused with hill shade. Water quality inversion commonly depends on establishing the relationship between the concentration of water constituents and the observed spectral reflectance. However, individual variation in water quality in small water bodies is enormous and often far beyond the range of existing water quality inversion models. In this study, we propose a method for small water body identification and water quality estimation and test its applicability in Wuhan. The kappa coefficient of small water body identification is over 0.95, and the coefficient of determination of the water quality inversion model is over 0.9. Our results show that the method proposed in this study can be employed to accurately monitor the dynamics of small water bodies. Due to the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, the intensity of human activities decreased. As a response, significant changes in the water quality of small water bodies were observed. The results also suggest that the water quality of small water bodies under different production modes (intensive/casual) respond differently in spatial and temporal dimensions to the decrease in human activities. These results illustrate that effective remote sensing monitoring of small water bodies can provide valuable information on water quality.

2013 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Md Al-Amin Hoque ◽  
Ummeh Saika ◽  
Khondaker Mohammod Shariful Huda

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3329/jueb.v1i0.14542Jahangirnagar University Environmental Bulletin, Vol.1, 1-14, 2012


2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (12) ◽  
pp. 553 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zehra Yigit Avdan ◽  
Gordana Kaplan ◽  
Serdar Goncu ◽  
Ugur Avdan

Remotely sensed data can reinforce the abilities of water resources researchers and decision-makers to monitor water quality more effectively. In the past few decades, remote sensing techniques have been widely used to measure qualitative water quality parameters. However, the use of moderate resolution sensors may not meet the requirements for monitoring small water bodies. Water quality in a small dam was assessed using high-resolution satellite data from RapidEye and in situ measurements collected a few days apart. The satellite carries a five-band multispectral optical imager with a ground sampling distance of 5 m at its nadir and a swath width of 80 km. Several different algorithms were evaluated using Pearson correlation coefficients for electrical conductivity (EC), total dissolved soils (TDS), water transparency, water turbidity, depth, suspended particular matter (SPM), and chlorophyll-a. The results indicate strong correlation between the investigated parameters and RapidEye reflectance, especially in the red and red-edge portion with highest correlation between red-edge band and water turbidity (r2 = 0.92). Two of the investigated indices showed good correlation in almost all of the water quality parameters with correlation higher than 0.80. The findings of this study emphasize the use of both high-resolution remote sensing imagery and red-edge portion of the electromagnetic spectrum for monitoring several water quality parameters in small water areas.


2005 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-40 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. S. Daya Sagar

Abstract. Spatio-temporal patterns of small water bodies (SWBs) under the influence of temporally varied stream flow discharge are simulated in discrete space by employing geomorphologically realistic expansion and contraction transformations. Cascades of expansion-contraction are systematically performed by synchronizing them with stream flow discharge simulated via the logistic map. Templates with definite characteristic information are defined from stream flow discharge pattern as the basis to model the spatio-temporal organization of randomly situated surface water bodies of various sizes and shapes. These spatio-temporal patterns under varied parameters (λs) controlling stream flow discharge patterns are characterized by estimating their fractal dimensions. At various λs, nonlinear control parameters, we show the union of boundaries of water bodies that traverse the water body and non-water body spaces as geomorphic attractors. The computed fractal dimensions of these attractors are 1.58, 1.53, 1.78, 1.76, 1.84, and 1.90, respectively, at λs of 1, 2, 3, 3.46, 3.57, and 3.99. These values are in line with general visual observations.


Author(s):  

Upgrading of the national standardization system creates favorable conditions for support and normal promotion of integrated environmental standards as a toolbox for control of the process of minimization of adverse impacts with their concurrent accounting and possible redistribution among the environment elements, i.e. air, water bodies, and soils. In the Russian practice of environmental protection there is no any objective toolbox for comprehensive assessment of the current activities’ negative impact. In outlook adoption of the negative impact minimization mechanism is most probable through the many-year benchmarking with European expertise based on the revealing of cause-eff ect relations in terms of «relative improvement of technique against the attained quality of environment (objectives)». Water bodies are subjected both to direct and indirect negative impact. There is no one method for assessment of water bodies’ environmental safety as a basis for adoption of adequate solutions in water sector. The developed standards on the basis of water/economic activities without considerable emissions to air and to soils propose a toolbox to secure uniform quantitative assessment both the techniques negative impact through assessment of their waste water quality and assessment of water quality of the receiving water body. The developed toolbox provides detection of the «negative impact – water body water quality» causeeffect relations. Integrated criteria proposed in the standards provide ranking and classifying of negative impact objects, detection and identification of the national water/economic best available techniques, implementation of the combined approach in the process of adoption of integrated environmental permissions.


2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vitaliy V. Chelnokov ◽  
Aleksey V. Matasov ◽  
Elena Zabolotnaya ◽  
Anna S. Makarova ◽  
Andrey N. Glushko

The aim of this research was to develop environmental methods for the restoration and rehabilitation of Moscow’s water bodies. A number of methods are recommended. These can help to improve the environmental condition and water quality of water bodiesin Moscow. Keywords: ehabilitation of water body, engineering biology, environmental preservation


2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (10) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ishtiyaq Ahmad Rather ◽  
Abdul Qayoom Dar

Abstract A dynamic process like land use, if anthropogenically unsustainable, adversely affects the well-being of the land system. Worldwide, water bodies are facing imminent threat due to unsustainable anthropogenic activities. Water quality and ecology are the two characteristics of water bodies, if not preserved, shall have a direct consequence on the well-being of the human systems. Hence it is essential to understand the causes and consequences of the deteriorating water body systems. The condition is particularly grim in Himalayan water body ecosystems, where unplanned and unchecked urbanization has threatened their very existence. In the present study, the dynamics of land use/land cover (LULC) and its impact on the water quality of Dal Lake in Kashmir Himalaya, India has been assessed. We carried out a detailed study wherein changing LULC is analyzed against the deteriorating trophic status of the Dal Lake using time-series of satellite imagery of the lake’s catchment and its water quality data. Results indicated that the water quality of Dal Lake has remarkably deteriorated due to increased nutrient and sediment loads from the catchment, attributed to significant anthropogenic activities in the catchment. Due to unprecedented LULC changes in the catchment, the forest class shows a significantly negative change since the last four decades (1980–2018), corroborating with the ongoing deterioration of physicochemical characteristics of the lake. The analysis shows an increase in all the agents of eutrophication, such as NO3–N, TP, and COD, from 1990 to 2018. The decrease in forest, agriculture, and floating gardens was observed to show a significant negative correlation with the increase in the decadal average values of the COD, NO3–N, and TP for the same corresponding period. Similarly, a positive correlation was found between the increase in built-up, aquatic vegetation, bare surfaces, and these water quality parameters, establishing a strong relationship between the deteriorating condition of the lake and changing LULC. Our findings indicate that changing LULC of the lake’s catchment is one of the critical factors that has significantly contributed toward the deteriorating ecology and water quality of the Dal Lake. This study shall contribute toward the development of the robust conservation strategy in order to save this urban lake from its untimely death.


2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
S. B. Patil ◽  
B. V. Patil

Water quality is becoming a global problem in developed and underdeveloped countries. Human activities directly or indirectly affect quality of water and pollute the water; the demand for fresh water is increasing faster. Therefore, in the present investigation attempt has been made to asses chemical parameters of Valwan dam water. Obtained values were compared with two standards of WHO and BIS. Parameters such as pH, Alkalinity, TDS, Total Hardness, CO2, dissolved oxygen, phosphate were found with permissible limits of BIS and WHO which indicates this water body is suitable for drinking purpose.


Author(s):  
L. Kovalyova

Awareness of ecosystem integrity increases the relevance of collecting information on the biodiversity of water bodies of various types. The episodic nature of studies of small water bodies, along with the high variability of their hydrological, hydrochemical, and morphometric parameters, is the reason for the lack of a full assessment of the state of biota. The current paper provides information on macrozoobenthos of four small water bodies in the North Kazakhstan region. The study revealed 59 representatives with a predominance of insects in the benthofauna. Bottom complexes of shallow temporary water bodies were characterized by a wider spectrum with a greater proportion of insects relative to similar variables for lake Big Koskol. The basis was composed by species adapted to fluctuations of water availability, which led to a relatively stable state of biocenoses against the background of a significant range of quantitative characteristics of zoobenthos. More abundant development of benthic invertebrates highlighted in the lake Bolshoy Koskol (with the dominance of amphipods) and in the temporary water body T26 (with the predominance of insects). By the size of the average annual zoobenthos biomass — 29–31.5 g / m2 — the mentioned above water bodies were classified as highly productive. The level of development of benthic organisms in water bodies T20–T14, where Vermes were the leaders in biomass assessed as increased productive and moderate productive (10.3–3.1 g/m2 respectively). A low faunistic similarity of macrozoobenthos was noted, indicating the originality of the benthic complexes of the studied water body, which once again emphasizes the role of small water body in maintaining the biodiversity of the ecosystem. Relatively high structural variables of benthocenoses indicate a stable ecological state of bottom communities. The abundance of zoobenthos creates the prerequisites for the utilization of the studied and similar water bodies for organizing amateur — sport fishery and the extraction of feed used in aquarium fish farming


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