2011 Remote Sensing Applications for U.S. – Mexico Border Water Management
Sponsored by:
California Department of Water Resources
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA
Water Education Foundation
The purpose of this day-and-a-half workshop was to provide water managers on both sides of the border with an overview of remote sensing data and tools that could be applied to binational water management issues, building on experience gained from NASA’s recent research project (funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009) to demonstrate potential use of existing remote sensing data sets for water resources applications in California.
Common threads in border water management are the need to better prepare for droughts and the need for improved data collection and monitoring to support decision-making. Remote sensing’s ability to integrate information over large geographic areas and to interpolate between scarce ground-based observations make it uniquely suited for border-area applications.
SPEAKER PRESENTATIONS
Clay Blankenship, Universities Spaces
Research Association (USRA), National Space Science and
Technology Center, Marshall Space Flight Center:
Use of Remote Sensing Data in Hydrologic Modeling
Brad Doorn, NASA/HQ Water Resources
Program:
Influencing Water Resource Decisions Using NASA Observations, Science and Technology Working with NASA
Dan Ferguson, University of Arizona, Climate
Assessment for the Southwest:
Role of Regional Integrated Sciences and Assessments (RISA) Centers in Translation of Information from Research to Operations
Karl Flessa, University of Arizona:
Environmental Monitoring of the Cienega de Santa Clara, A Mexican Wetland: Trans-boundary Water and the Yuma Desalting Plant
Ed Glenn, University of Arizona:
Remote Sensing Applications for Ecosystem Monitoring in the Colorado River Delta
Alejandro Hinojosa, Centro de Invetigacion
Cientifica y de Educacion Superior de Ensenada:
The California-Baja California Border Region, Water Related Remote Sensing Applications
Osvel Hinojosa-Huerta, Pronatura
Noroeste:
Remote Sensing for the Study and Conservation of the Colorado River Delta
Cathleen Jones, NASA Jet Propulsion
Laboratory, Caltech:
Synthetic Aperture Radar Monitoring Capabilities: Levees, Dams and the Gulf Oil Spill
Jeanine Jones, California Department of
Water Resources (DWR):
Lessons Learned from NASA's ARRA Project on California Water Resources
Forrest Melton, CSU Monterey Bay & NASA Ames
Research Center:
Access and Use of Imagery and Data from MODIS, Landsat, and Commercial Satellites
Jeff Milliken, Bureau of
Reclamation:
Lower Colorado River Accounting System (LCRAS) Lower Colorado Region
Noah Molotch, Institute of Arctic & Alpine
Research/Geography, University of Colorado at Boulder:
Remote Sensing of the Rocky Mountain Snowpack
Rick Mueller, Head/Spatial Analysis
Research, USA/National Agricultural Statistics Service:
Cropland Mapping with Satellite Data
Steve Niemeyer, Texas Commission on
Environmental Quality:
Rio Grande Hydrologic Applications
Daniel Pearson, U.S. Geological Survey
(USGS), Texas Water Science Center:
U.S.-Mexico Border Environmental Health Initiative
Mariana Felix Scott, Earth System Science
Center (ESSC), University of Alabama:
Precipitation Estimation in the U.S.-Mexico Border Using Ground Based Radars
Douglas Stow, Center for Earth Systems
Analysis Research (CESAR), Department of Geography, San Diego
State University:
Lessons Learned on Border Area Projects