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* photo of Hume Dam in Australia courtesy of Goulburn-Murray Water
Overview
Our home planet has been described by NASA as a "blue marble" , characterized by its strong cycling and replenishing of water. However, with increasing population pressure and water usage, coupled with climate variability and change, water management is one of the most critical environmental problems facing us in the 21st century.
The NASA Applied Sciences Program (ASP) has the primary responsibility to apply data from NASA satellite missions to models in order to help solve problems important to society and the economy. The NASA Water Resources theme in the ASP addresses concerns and decision processes that are related to water availability, water forecast, and water quality. The goal of the Water Resources theme is to apply NASA satellite data to improve the Decision Support Tools (DSTs) of user groups that manage water resources. The Water Resources theme partners with Federal agencies, academia, private firms, and international organizations.
The goal of this website is to provide a summary of the Water Resources activities. The program has organized its project activities into the following functional categories:
- Water Quality
- Water Delivery and Irrigation
- Climate and Water Resources
- Flow and Flood Forecasting
- Drought
- Completed Projects from previous water management funding cycles
- Feasibility Projects are projects that required 12-18 months to explore Earth science applications, after which they might be proposed as 4-year Decision Support projects
Water Quality Projects
- Improving BASINS/HSPF Predictions of Nitrogen Export to Improve TMDL Accuracy Using NASA Imagery
- Improving Water Quality Management: Use of Earth Observations in SPARROW
- Satellite Earth Image Products Applied to Development of Regulatory Water Quality Standards
Investigators: Philip A. Townsend (PI, U. Wisconsin), Angelica L. Gutierrez-Magness (U. Maryland), Keith N. Eshleman (U. Maryland), Brenden E. McNeil (West Virginia University)
Investigators: Molly Macauley (PI, 1), Anne Nolin (2), Qingyuan Zhang (3), Richard Smith (4), Jhih-Shyang Shih (1)
1- Resources for the Future
2- Dept of Geosciences, Oregon State University
3- Goddard Earth Sciences and Technology (GEST), U. Maryland
4- US Geological Survey
Investigators: John Lehrter (PI, EPA), Bruce Spiering (NASA/Stennis), Slawomir Blonski (SSAI), Kenton Ross (SSAI), Blake Schaeffer (EPA), James Hagey (EPA), William Fisher (EPA), Marc Russell (EPA)
Water Delivery and Irrigation Projects
Climate and Water Resources Projects
- Enhancing California's Water Resource Management and Decision Support System for Impacts of Climate Change
Investigators: Soroosh Sorooshian, (U. California - Irvine)
Flow and Flood Forecasting Projects
- Improving Flash Flood Prediction through a Synthesis of NASA Products, NWP Models, and Flash Flood Decision Support Systems
- Project Nile: Distributed hydrological information for water management in the Nile basin
Investigators: PI Brian Cosgrove (NOAA/NWS/OHD).
Investigators: B. Zaitchik (PI, 1), S. Habib (2), V. Koren (3), M. Anderson (4), M. Ozdogan (5),
E. Viala (6), B. Attia (7), A. Seid (8), A. Salzberg (9), S. Abdel Dayem (10), F. Policelli (2),
M. Rodell (2), N. Harshadeep (11)
1- Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
2- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA
3- NOAA Office of Hydrologic Development, Silver Spring, MD, USA
4- USDA Hydrology and Remote Sensing Lab, Beltsville, MD, USA
5- University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA
6- USAID Office of Middle East Programs, Cairo, Egypt
7- Egyptian Ministry of Water Resources and Irrigation, Cairo, Egypt
8- Water Resource Planning and Management Project, The Nile Basin Initiative, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
9- Office of Environment and Conservation, US Department of State, Washington DC, USA
10- Arab Water Council, Cairo, Egypt
11- The World Bank, Washington DC, USA
Drought Projects
- The Global Reservoir and Lake Monitor (GRLM): Expansion and Enhancement of Water Height Products
- Assessing Water Resources in Remote, Sparsely Gauged, Snow-Dominated Mountain Basins
- Development of Multi-Scale Remote-Sensing Based Framework for Mapping Drought Over North America
- Integration of Remote Sensing Observations and a Web-Based Decision Support System for Managing Impacts of Agricultural Droughts on Crop Yields in Heterogeneous Landscapes
- Global Monitoring of Agricultural Drought: A Contribution to GEO GLAM
- Application of Evapotranspiration and Soil Moisture Remote Sensing Products to Enhance Hydrological Modeling for Decision Support in the New York City Water Supply
- Investigating the Feasibility of Incorporating Remote Sensing and Earth Science Datasets into Existing Frameworks for Improving Water Supply and Drought Forecasts in California
- Mitigation of Drought Impacts on Agriculture through Satellite Irrigation Monitoring and Management Support
- Integration of Precision NASA Snow Products with the Operations of the Colorado Basin River Forecast Center to Improve Decision Making Under Drought Conditions
- Adaptation Planning for Climate Change Impacts Using Advanced Decision Support and Remote Sensing: Irrigated Agriculture in California's Central Valley
- Fallowed Area Mapping for Drought Impact Reporting and Decision Making
- Cloud Computing-Based Delivery of Drought Information at Multiple Scales
Charon Birkett (U. Maryland) ROSES 2011 project
Jeff Dozier (U. California) ROSES 2011 project
Christopher Hain (U. Maryland) ROSES 2011 project
Jasmeet Judge (U. Florida) ROSES 2011 project
Chris Justice (U. Maryland) ROSES 2011 project
Nir Krakauer (CUNY) ROSES 2011 project
Steven Margulis (UCLA) ROSES 2011 project
Forrest Melton (NASA Ames) ROSES 2011 project
Thomas Painter (JPL) ROSES 2011 project
Cynthia Rosenzweig (GISS) ROSES 2011 project
James Verdin (USGS) ROSES 2011 project
Enrique Vivoni (Arizona State University) ROSES 2011 project
Completed Projects
- NASA Products for Improving Reclamation RiverWare and AWARDS ET Tool Box DSTs for Water Availability and Forecasting
- Developing Seasonal Predictive Capability for Drought Mitigation Decision Support System
- Initialization of the NCEP Eta/NAM Model DST with Uncoupled NLDASE Land Surface States
- Benchmarking NASA Snow Research Results in NWS Hydrological Decision Support
- What is the Value of Integrating Best Estimates of Regional Evapotranspiration into Hydrologic Decision Support Systems?
- Development of a Robust Drought Index for Agricultural Applications
- Improving Water Resources Management in the Western U.S. through use of Remote Sensing Data and Seasonal Climate Forecasts
- Enhancing Water Management Decision Support Systems with High Spatio-temporal Resolution Mapping of Actual Evapotranspiration
- National Drought Monitoring System for Drought Early Warning Using Hydrologic and Ecologic Observations from NASA Satellite Data
- Introducing Remotely Sensed Irrigation Information into the USDA FAS Decision Support System
- Improving NOAA/NWS River Forecast Center Decision Support with NASA Satellite and Land Information System Products
- Integrating Enhanced GRACE Water Storage Data into the U.S. and North American Drought Monitors
- Application of NASA Satellite Products and Land Surface Models to Improve the Hydrologic Performance of the EPA's BASINS DST
- A Land Data Assimilation System for Famine Early Warning
Investigators: Kristi Arsenault (UMBC/GEST/NASA/GSFC), David Toll (NASA/GSFC), Edwin. T. Engman (NASA/GSFC/SAIC), Bowser (BoR), R. Stodt (BoR/TSC), S. Hunter (BoR), A. Brower, and A. Pinheiro (ORAU/NASA/GSFC)
Investigators: Ximing Cai (PI,1); Jae Ryu (3), Xin-Zhong Liang (2), Praveen Kumar(1), Mark Svoboda (3), Cody Knutson (3),
Meghan Sittler (3), Donald A. Wilhite (3), James Angel (2), and Michael Palecki (2)
1- Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering,
2- Illinois State Water Survey, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign;
3- National Drought Mitigation Center, Univ. of Nebraska-Lincoln
Investigators: Brian A. Cosgrove (PI, NASA/GSFC/SAIC), Charles Alonge (PI, NASA/GSFC/SAIC), Paul Houser (CREW), Ken Mitchell (NOAA/NCEP/EMC), Michael Ek (NOAA/NCEP/EMC), Keith Brill (NOAA/NCEP/EMC), Eric Rogers (NOAA/NCEP/EMC), Matt Pyle (NOAA/NCEP/EMC).
Investigators: Lydia Gates (PI, 1) Jagadish Shukla (2), D. Cline (3), L. Rundquist (4), P. Houser (5)
1- GMU, Center for Research on Environment and Water (CREW)
2- George Mason University (GMU)
3- NOAA's National Operational Hydrologic Remote Sensing Center
4- NOAA's NWS Alaska-Pacific River Forecast Center
5- Consultant
Investigators: PI, Jan Hendrickx (New Mexico Tech University).
Investigators: R. Koster (PI, NASA/GSFC).....
Investigators: Dennis Lettenmaier (PI, U. Washington), S. Soorooshian (U. Cal. Irvine), A. Wood (U. Washington), A. Steinmann (U. Washington), B. Imam (U. Cal. Irvine)
Investigators: PI Timothy Martin, (Riverside Technology, Inc.)
Investigators: S. V. Nghiem (PI, JPL), J. P. Verdin (Lead Co-I, USGS), D. A. Wilhite (National Drought Mitigation Center or NDMC), R. Dole (NOAA Physical Science Division), D. LeComte (NOAA Climate Prediction Center), G. R. Brakenridge (Dartmouth College), E. G. Njoku (JPL)
Investigators: Mutlu Ozdogan (PI, U. Wisconsin), Curt Reynolds (USDA FAS), Brad Doorn (USDA FAS)
Investigators: P. Restrepo (PI, NOAA/NWS/OHD), A. Limaye (PI, MSFC GHCC) Christa Peters-Lidard (PI, NASA GSFC), C. Laymon (MSFC/USRA/GHCC), W. Crosson (MSFC/USRA/GHCC), M. Estes (MSFC/USRA/GHCC), Z. Al-Hamden (MSFC/USRA/GHCC), D.L. Rickman (NASA/MSFC), F. Cosgrove (SAIC/NASA/GSFC), M. Garcia (UMC/GEST/NASA/GSFC), V. Koren (NOAA/NWS/OHD), D.J. Seo (UCAR/NOAA/NWS/OHD), M. Smith (NOAA/NWS/OHD), D. Toll (NASA/GSFC), and P. Houser (GMU/IGES/CREW)
Investigators: M. Rodell (PI, NASA/GSFC), J. Lawrimore, J.S. Famiglietti, R. Heim, R. Reichle, M. Svoboda, B. Wardlow, B.F. Zaitchik, A. Pinheiro
Investigators: D. Toll (NASA/GSFC), E.T. Engman (SAIC/NASA/GSFC), Ed Partington (EPA/OW), James Carleton (EPA/OW), G. Shenk (EPA/CBP), Angelica Magness (USGS/CBP), J. Nigro (SSAI/NASA/GSFC), W. Ni-Meister (Hunter College), Shih Yan Lee (Hunter College), and Phil Townsend (Univ. Wisc.)
Investigators: James Verdin (co-PI,1); Chris Funk (co-PI,1),
Christa Peters-Lidard (2), Molly Brown (2), Dennis Lettenmaier (3)
1- U.S. Geological Survey / Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center
2- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
3- U. Washington
Completed Feasibility Projects
- Near Real-time Flood Detection and Mapping
- Estuary Variance Map for In Situ Sample Station Placement
- The feasibility of combining NASA satellite data, general circulation models, and hydrologic model to inform decision making for flood mitigation on the Devils Lake basin of North Dakota
- The potential impacts of climate change on the seasonal snowpack, reservoir storage, and dam and hydroelectric operations
- Determining the feasibility of mapping and monitoring the extent of Cladophora in the Laurentian Great Lakes with multi-scale remote sensing
Investigators: Fritz Policelli (NASA/GSFC)
Investigators: Bruce Spiering (NASA/Stennis)
Investigators: Xiaodong Zhang (U. North Dakota)
Investigators: Brandon Moore (Aniuk Consulting LLC)
Investigators: Robert Shuchman (Michigan Tech. U.)
