Conservational use of remote sensing techniques for a novel rainwater harvesting in arid environment

Environmental Earth Sciences

Volumn 72, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 4995-5005

  Elhag, Mohamed ^a   Bahrawi, Jarbou A ^a  

^a KING ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Cloud detection; Geographical information system; MERIS images; Rainwater harvesting; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HARVESTING; LAND USE; RAIN; RECHARGING (UNDERGROUND WATERS); WATER RESOURCES;

CLOUD DETECTION; CLOUD DETECTION ALGORITHMS; GROUND WATER RECHARGE; MERIS IMAGES; RAIN WATER HARVESTING; REMOTE SENSING APPLICATIONS; REMOTE SENSING TECHNIQUES; WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT;

REMOTE SENSING;

ALGORITHM; ARID ENVIRONMENT; CLIMATE MODELING; RAINWATER; RECHARGE; REMOTE SENSING; SITE INVESTIGATION; WATER MANAGEMENT;

SAUDI ARABIA;

EID: 84912101185     PISSN: 18666280     EISSN: 18666299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12665-014-3367-6     Document Type: Article

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