Earth observation for water resource management in Africa / / edited by Benjamin Koetz [and three others].

• TeilnehmendeR: Koetz, Benjamin,
• Place / Publishing House: Basel, Switzerland : : MDPI,, 2016.
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (535 pages) :; illustrations, maps

Reliable access to water, managing the spatial and temporal variability of water availability, ensuring the quality of freshwater and responding to climatological changes in the hydrological cycle are prerequisites for the development of countries in Africa. Water being an essential input for biomass growth and for renewable energy production (e.g. biofuels and hydropower schemes) plays an integral part in ensuring food and energy security for any nation. Water, as a source of safe drinking water, is furthermore the basis for ensuring the health of citizens and plays an important role in urban sanitation. The concept of Integrated Water Resource Management (IWRM) is seen as an opportunity to help manage water variability and the wide spread water scarcity in Africa. One key component missing from IWRM in Africa is the limited knowledge of the available extent and quality of water resources at basin level. Earth Observation (EO) technology can help fill this information gap by assessing and monitoring water resources at adequate temporal and spatial scales. The goal of this Special Issue is to understand and demonstrate the contribution which satellite observations, consistent over space and time, can bring to improve water resource management in Africa. Possible EO products and applications range from catchment characterization, water quality monitoring, soil moisture assessment, water extent and level monitoring, irrigation services, urban and agricultural water demand modeling, evapotranspiration estimation, ground water management, to hydrological modeling and flood mapping/forecasting. Some of these EO applications have already been developed by African scientists within the 10 year lifetime of the TIGER initiative: Looking after Water in Africa (http://www.tiger.esa.int), whose contributions are intended to be the starting point of this Special Issue and is only one example of the wide range of activities in the field. Contributions from the entire African and international scientific community dealing with the challenges of water resource management in Africa are the target of the special issue. In the years to come, an ever increasing number of international EO missions, such as the Landsat, ALOS, CBERS and RESOURCESAT mission suites, the family of Sentinel missions and the SMAP mission, will provide an unprecedented capacity to observe and monitor the different components of the water cycle. This Special Issue aims also at reviewing the latest developments in terms of new missions as well as related EO products and techniques that will be available in the near future to face some of the major challenges for IWRM in Africa.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors -- About the Guest Editors -- Preface -- Chapter 1: Water Resource Management -- Radoslaw Guzinski, Steve Kass, Silvia Huber, Peter Bauer-Gottwein, Iris Hedegaard Jensen, Vahid Naeimi, Marcela Doubková, Andreas Walli and Christian Tottrup Enabling the Use of Earth Observation Data for Integrated Water Resource Management in Africa with the Water Observation and Information System Reprinted from: Remote Sens. 2014, 6(8), 7819-7839 http://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/6/8/7819 -- Guillaume Ramillien, Frédéric Frappart and Lucia Seoane Application of the Regional Water Mass Variations from GRACE Satellite Gravimetry to Large-Scale Water Management in Africa Reprinted from: Remote Sens. 2014, 6(8), 7379-7405 http://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/6/8/7379 -- Chapter 2: Hydrological Modeling -- Joseph Mtamba, Rogier van der Velde, Preksedis Ndomba, Zoltán Vekerdy and Felix Mtalo Use of Radarsat-2 and Landsat TM Images for Spatial Parameterization of Manning's Roughness Coefficient in Hydraulic Modeling Reprinted from: Remote Sens. 2015, 7(1), 836-864 http://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/7/1/836 -- Webster Gumindoga, Tom Rientjes, Munyaradzi Davis Shekede, Donald Tendayi Rwasoka, Innocent Nhapi and Alemseged Tamiru Haile Hydrological Impacts of Urbanization of Two Catchments in Harare, Zimbabwe Reprinted from: Remote Sens. 2014, 6(12), 12544-12574 http://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/6/12/12544 -- Emad Habib, Alemseged Tamiru Haile, Nazmus Sazib, Yu Zhang and Tom Rientjes Effect of Bias Correction of Satellite-Rainfall Estimates on Runoff Simulations at the Source of the Upper Blue Nile Reprinted from: Remote Sens. 2014, 6(7), 6688-6708 http://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/6/7/6688 -- Mohamed Rasmy, Toshio Koike and Xin Li Applicability of Multi-Frequency Passive Microwave Observations and Data Assimilation Methods for Improving NumericalWeather Forecasting in Niger, Africa Reprinted from: Remote Sens. 2014, 6(6), 5306-5324 http://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/6/6/5306 -- Chapter 3: Evapotranspiration -- Michel Le Page, Jihad Toumi, Saïd Khabba, Olivier Hagolle, Adrien Tavernier, M. Hakim Kharrou, Salah Er-Raki, Mireille Huc, Mohamed Kasbani, Abdelilah El Moutamanni, Mohamed Yousfi and Lionel Jarlan A Life-Size and Near Real-Time Test of Irrigation Scheduling with a Sentinel-2 Like Time Series (SPOT4-Take5) in Morocco Reprinted from: Remote Sens. 2014, 6(11), 11182-11203 http://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/6/11/11182 -- Nadia Akdim, Silvia Maria Alfieri, Adnane Habib, Abdeloihab Choukri, Elijah K. Cheruiyot, Kamal Labbassi and Massimo Menenti Monitoring of Irrigation Schemes by Remote Sensing: Phenology versus Retrieval of Biophysical Variables Reprinted from: Remote Sens. 2014, 6(6), 5815-5851 http://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/6/6/5815 -- Wim G.M. Bastiaanssen, Poolad Karimi, Lisa-Maria Rebelo, Zheng Duan, Gabriel Senay, Lal Muthuwatte and Vladimir Smakhtin Earth Observation Based Assessment of the Water Production and Water Consumption of Nile Basin Agro-Ecosystems Reprinted from: Remote Sens. 2014, 6(11), 10306-10334 http://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/6/11/10306 -- Mireia Romaguera, Maarten S. Krol, Mhd. Suhyb Salama, Zhongbo Su and Arjen Y. Hoekstra Application of a Remote Sensing Method for Estimating Monthly Blue Water Evapotranspiration in Irrigated Agriculture Reprinted from: Remote Sens. 2014, 6(10), 10033-10050 http://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/6/10/10033 -- Rim Amri, Mehrez Zribi, Zohra Lili-Chabaane, Camille Szczypta, Jean Christophe Calvet and Gilles Boulet FAO-56 Dual Model Combined with Multi-Sensor Remote Sensing for Regional Evapotranspiration Estimations Reprinted from: Remote Sens. 2014, 6(6), 5387-5406 http://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/6/6/5387 -- Abel Ramoelo, Nobuhle Majozi, Renaud Mathieu, Nebo Jovanovic, Alecia Nickless and Validation of Global Evapotranspiration Product (MOD16) using Flux Tower Data in the Sebinasi Dzikiti African Savanna, South Africa Reprinted from: Remote Sens. 2014, 6(8), 7406-7423 http://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/6/8/7406 -- Mireia Romaguera, Mhd. Suhyb Salama, Maarten S. Krol, Arjen Y. Hoekstra and Zhongbo Su Towards the Improvement of Blue Water Evapotranspiration Estimates by Combining Remote Sensing and Model Simulation Reprinted from: Remote Sens. 2014, 6(8), 7026-7049 http://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/6/8/7026 -- Francesco Nutini, Mirco Boschetti, Gabriele Candiani, Stefano Bocchi and Pietro Alessandro Brivio Evaporative Fraction as an Indicator of Moisture Condition and Water Stress Status in Semi-Arid Rangeland Ecosystems Reprinted from: Remote Sens. 2014, 6(7), 6300-6323 http://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/6/7/6300 -- Henok Alemu, Gabriel B. Senay, Armel T. Kaptue and Valeriy Kovalskyy Evapotranspiration Variability and Its Association with Vegetation Dynamics in the Nile Basin, 2002-2011 Reprinted from: Remote Sens. 2014, 6(7), 5885-5908 http://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/6/7/5885 -- Chapter 4: Surface Water Hydrology -- Dirk Eilander, Frank O. Annor, Lorenzo Iannini and Nick van de Giesen Remotely Sensed Monitoring of Small Reservoir Dynamics: A Bayesian Approach Reprinted from: Remote Sens. 2014, 6(2), 1191-1210 http://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/6/2/1191 -- Donato Amitrano, Gerardo Di Martino, Antonio Iodice, Francesco Mitidieri, Maria Nicolina Papa, Daniele Riccio and Giuseppe Ruello Sentinel-1 for Monitoring Reservoirs: A Performance Analysis Reprinted from: Remote Sens. 2014, 6(11), 10676-10693 http://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/6/11/10676 -- Elijah K. Cheruiyot, Collins Mito, Massimo Menenti, Ben Gorte, Roderik Koenders and Nadia Akdim Evaluating MERIS-Based Aquatic Vegetation Mapping in Lake Victoria Reprinted from: Remote Sens. 2014, 6(8), 7762-7782 http://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/6/8/7762 -- Mélanie Becker, Joecila Santos da Silva, Stéphane Calmant, Vivien Robinet, Laurent Linguet and Frédérique Seyler Water Level Fluctuations in the Congo Basin Derived from ENVISAT Satellite Altimetry Reprinted from: Remote Sens. 2014, 6(10), 9340-9358 http://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/6/10/9340 -- Eric Muala, Yasir A. Mohamed, Zheng Duan and Pieter van der Zaag Estimation of Reservoir Discharges from Lake Nasser and Roseires Reservoir in the Nile Basin Using Satellite Altimetry and Imagery Data Reprinted from: Remote Sens. 2014, 6(8), 7522-7545 http://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/6/8/7522 -- Muriel Bergé-Nguyen and Jean-François Crétaux Inundations in the Inner Niger Delta: Monitoring and Analysis Using MODIS and Global Precipitation Datasets Reprinted from: Remote Sens. 2015, 7(2), 2127-2151 http://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/7/2/2127 -- Alena Dostálová, Marcela Doubková, Daniel Sabel, Bernhard Bauer-Marschallinger and Wolfgang Wagner Seven Years of Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar (ASAR) Global Monitoring (GM) of Surface Soil Moisture over Africa Reprinted from: Remote Sens. 2014, 6(8), 7683-7707 http://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/6/8/7683.