On the Use of Hydrological Models and Satellite Data to Study the Water Budget of River Basins Affected by Human Activities: Examples from the Garonne Basin of France

Surveys in Geophysics

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 223-247

  Martin, Eric ^a,b   Gascoin, Simon ^c   Grusson, Youen ^d,e   Murgue, Clément ^f,g   Bardeau, Mélanie ⁱ   Anctil, François ^e   Ferrant, Sylvain ^c   Lardy, Romain ^f,h   Le Moigne, Patrick ^a   Leenhardt, Delphine ^f   Rivalland, Vincent ^c   Sánchez Pérez, José Miguel ^d   Sauvage, Sabine ^d   Therond, Olivier ^f  

^a MÉTÉO FRANCE   (France)

^b UR EMAX   (France)

^c CNES   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

^e UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^f UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

^g CACG   (France)

^h ARVALIS Institut Du Végétal   (France)

ⁱ BRGM   (France)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Anthropogenic changes; Hydrology; Modeling; Remote sensing; Sociological and hydrological system

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; BUDGET CONTROL; CATCHMENTS; CROPS; HYDROLOGY; MODELS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; RADIOMETERS; REMOTE SENSING; RIVERS; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SNOW; SPACE OPTICS; WATERSHEDS;

ANTHROPOGENIC CHANGES; ANTHROPOGENIC FORCING; HYDROLOGICAL CHANGES; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; HYDROLOGICAL SYSTEM; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; SPACE-BASED OBSERVATIONS;

CLIMATE MODELS;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; HUMAN ACTIVITY; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; REMOTE SENSING; RIVER BASIN; SATELLITE DATA; WATER BUDGET;

FRANCE; GARONNE BASIN;

EID: 84961160925     PISSN: 01693298     EISSN: 15730956     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10712-016-9366-2     Document Type: Review

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