Assessment of water availability and consumption in the Karkheh river basin, Iran-using remote sensing and geo-statistics

Water Resources Management

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 459-484

  Muthuwatta, L P ^a   Ahmad, Mobin ud Din ^a,c   Bos, M G ^b   Rientjes, T H M ^b  

^a INTERNATIONAL WATER MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE   (Sri Lanka)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Evapotranspiration; Karkheh; Remote sensing; Spatial analysis; Water balance

Indexed keywords

ACTUAL EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; CROP EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; GEO-STATISTICS; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER; RIVER BASINS; SATELLITE DATA; SCARCE RESOURCES; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICAL TECHNIQUES; SUB-BASIN SCALE; SUBBASINS; SURFACE ENERGY BALANCE; WATER AVAILABILITY; WATER BALANCE;

EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; RADIOMETERS; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SURFACE CHEMISTRY; SURFACE TENSION; WATER SUPPLY; WATERSHEDS;

WATER ANALYSIS;

DECISION MAKING; ESTIMATION METHOD; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; GEOSTATISTICS; MODIS; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; WATER AVAILABILITY; WATER BUDGET;

IRAN; KARKHEH RIVER; KHUZESTAN;

TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 77349124224     PISSN: 09204741     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11269-009-9455-9     Document Type: Article

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