Using remote sensing data to improve groundwater supply estimations in Gujarat, India

Earth Interactions

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 1-17

  Chinnasamy, Pennan ^a   Hubbart, Jason A ^a   Agoramoorthy, Govindasamy ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b TAJEN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c Gujarat Institute of Desert Ecology   (India)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Education; Groundwater depletion; Gujarat; India; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; DIGITAL STORAGE; EDUCATION; GEODETIC SATELLITES; GROUNDWATER; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; NASA; POTABLE WATER; REMOTE SENSING; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL SURVEYS; WATER CONSERVATION; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER SUPPLY;

GRAVITY RECOVERY AND CLIMATE EXPERIMENT SATELLITES; GROUNDWATER DEPLETION; GUJARAT; INDIA; IRRIGATED AGRICULTURE; LAND DATA ASSIMILATION SYSTEMS; RESOURCE AVAILABILITY; SUSTAINABLE GROUNDWATER MANAGEMENT;

GROUNDWATER RESOURCES;

GRACE; GROUNDWATER RESOURCE; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; SUSTAINABILITY; WATER MANAGEMENT;

GUJARAT; INDIA;

EID: 84873329981     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: 10873562     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2012EI000456.1     Document Type: Article

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