Application & Capacity Building : Application Areas

Water Resources


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NASA's Landsat satellites shows the Yellow River delta at five-year
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The NASA Water Resources Program:

The water resources program 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.


Water Resources Projects Water Resources Projects:
The water resources projects are organized into several categories; water quality, water delivery and irrigation, flow ad flood forecasting, drought, snowpack and climate and water resources.
 
Water Resources Programmatic Activities Programmatic Activities:
The program support national and international activities to improve skills, share data and applications, and broaden the range of users who apply satellite data and Earth science in Water resource decisions.

NASA Satellite Images Will Help Farmers Conserve Water: NPR in the Monterrey Bay area recently covered an Applied Sciences Water Resources project. View the article and listen to the segment here.