Remote Sensing and GIS Applications on Groundwater Research
A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Remote Sensors".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2023) | Viewed by 4329
Special Issue Editor
Interests: remote sensing and GIS techniques applied to prospecting; management and conservation of water; geology; detection of submarine groundwater discharges
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Groundwater is one of the most important natural resources because, in many regions, it is the main source of water supply, essential for human activities, economic development, and environmental conservation. Groundwater has several relevant advantages compared with surface water: it is less affected by evaporation, is available over large regions, and normally is of higher quality and more protected from possible pollution.
Those are precisely the reasons why it is essential to apply innovative tools to obtain more detailed and real-time knowledge of the actual situation of groundwater, to facilitate appropriate management and water protection activities. In that sense, remote sensing is a technology that provides useful groundwater indicator data, in a more efficient and less costly way than invasive methods. Furthermore, the obtained data can be integrated into geographic information systems (GIS), which are innovative technologies that have a paramount role in spatial analysis, geostatistical techniques, and numerical modeling.
This Special Issue of Sensors will present the latest advances in the application of remote sensing and GIS data analysis in the field of groundwater research and management.
We invite contributions that address every aspect of remote sensing and GIS related to the following research issues:
- Hidrogeological mapping
- Soil moisture monitoring
- Assessment of natural and artificial groundwater recharge
- Submarine groundwater discharge (SGD) evaluation
- Assessment of groundwater use in irrigated agriculture
- Groundwater–surface water interaction
- GIS-based groundwater management
Aquifer vulnerability assessment
Prof. Dr. Francisco Conde
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Groundwater
- Remote sensing
- GIS
- Groundwater management
- Groundwater recharge
- Aquifer vulnerability
- Submarine groundwater discharge (SGD)
- Groundwater–surface water interaction
