GIS and Remote Sensing in Hydrology, Water Resources and Environment

Edited by
Yangbo Chen, Kaoru Takara, Ian D. Cluckie
& F. Hilaire De Smedt

IAHS Publ. 289 (September 2004) ISBN 1-901502-72-4, 422 + x pp. Price £70.00

 

The Three Gorges Dam, China

Present-day remote sensing and GIS capabilities enable more accurate precipitation measurements and terrestrial characteristic data to be built into hydrological models and systems.

Scientists, engineers and policy makers from across the globe shared their experience at an international conference at the Three Gorges dam site, China, 2004. These papers selected from the meeting provide insight to current work on:

  • flood forecasting
  • runoff simulation
  • hydrological change
  • water resources management
  • environmental modelling
  • data management

Useful reading for both researchers and practitioners, bringing together innovative applications of the current technologies in areas ranging from weather radar, to phytoplankton density, to GIS and water Management Information Systems

 

Contents

Preface by
Yangbo Chen, Kaoru Takara, Ian D. Cluckie & F. Hilaire De Smedt

v

Distributed hydrologic modelling for flood forecasting
Baxter E. Vieux

1

Weather radar technology and future developments
Ian David Cluckie & Miguel Angel Rico-Ramirez

11

1

Flood Forecasting

 

Application of GIS and remote sensing in flood modelling for complex terrain
F. H. De Smedt, Y. B. Liu, S. Gebremeskel, L. Hoffmann & L. Pfister

23

Impact of flood retarding structures on simulated streamflow for various sized watersheds under varying climatic conditions
Michael W. Van Liew

33

Small basin flash flood simulation with TOPMODEL
Yangbo Chen, Dehua Zhu & Jianhua Zhao

41

Parameterization using ArcView GIS in medium and large watershed modelling
Y. B. Liu, F. H. De Smedt, L. Hoffmann & L. Pfister

50

A computation model for estimating the input flood of the Feilaixia reservoir in Guangdong, south China
Junhe Chen, Haiyang Liu & Xiaoyue Chen

59

Probabilistic forecasting of distributed river stage conditions using a Monte Carlo simulation
Paul James Smith & Toshiharu Kojiri

66

Preliminary design of GIS-based integrated basin management and flood control information system for SWRC
Wu Chaojun, Zhang Defu & Yang Jixing

73

The application of Web GIS in emergency flood control system
Huicheng Zhou, Bin He, Lingya Zhu & Guohua Liang

80

2

Runoff Simulation

 

Effect of map scale and grid size for hydrological modelling
Nurünnisa Usul & Onur Paşaoğullari

91

Simulation of runoff and sediment flow in a catchment based on land-unit flow networks
Gaohuan Liu, Qiangguo Cai, Huiyi Zhu & Zhenghong Tang

101

Study on L-moment estimations for log-normal distribution with historical flood data
Yuanfang Chen, Shengbin Xu, Zhigui Sha, Pieter Van Gelder & Sheng-Hua Gu

107

Spatially distributed snowmelt simulation and GIS application in the Wei River basin
Z. X. Xu, C. M. Liu, H. Ishidaira & K. Takeuchi

114

Use of data obtained via a global positioning system to verify numerical flow results in a lake
Masaji Watanabe & Satoshi Numaguchi

122

Characteristics, evolution and trend forecasts for the runoff in the upper Yellow River
Lan Yongchao, Ding Yongjian, Chen Xianzhang & Ma Jianhua

132

Research on spatial structure changes of urban land use
Zhang Xin-Chang & Pan Qiong

141

An integrated approach for inundation simulation in an urban area
Shiu-Shin Lin, Hsiang-Kuan Chang, Shang-Hsien Hsieh, Jan-Tai Kuo & Jihn-Sung Lai

151

Runoff and sediment yield simulation in a large basin using GIS and a distributed hydrological model
Fanghua Hao, Xuesong Zhang, Hongguang Cheng, Changming Liu & Zhifeng Yang

157

3

Hydrological Changes

 

Detection of long-term changes in precipitation and discharge in the Meuse basin
M. Tu, M. J. Hall, P. J. M. De Laat & M. J. M. De Wit

169

GIS-supported mitigation of the impact of hydropower dams on the flood plains of the Drava–Mura Rivers in Croatia/Hungary
Ulrich Schwarz & Jürg Bloesch

178

A study of the relationship between rainfall variability and the improvement of using a distributed model
Ziya Zhang, Michael Smith, Victor Koren, Seann Reed, Fekadu Moreda, Vadim Kuzmin & Richard Anderson

188

Human-induced hydrological changes in the river network of the Pearl River Delta, South China
Xiaohong Chen & Yongqin David Chen

197

Determination of regional heat fluxes over heterogeneous land surfaces
Yaoming Ma, Weiqing Ma, Maoshan Li, Zhongbo Su, Massimo Menenti, Osamu Tsukamoto, Hirohiko Ishikawa, Toshio Koike & Jun Wen

206

Statistical modelling and estimating the irrigation and man-made effects on annual runoff and water resources
Nataliya Loboda & Phan Van Chinh

215

Impact of land use changes on runoff of the Taihu basin, China
Gao Junfeng

219

Numerical simulation study on the coupling of a regional climate model with a hydrological model
Suoquan Zhou, Gengyuan Xue, Peng Gong & Xu Liang

227

4

Water Resources Management

 

An application of the VIC-3L land surface model with the new surface runoff model in simulating streamflow for the Yellow River basin
Zhenghui Xie, Qian Liu & Fengge Su

241

The seamless integrating technology of GIS and Management Information Systems (MIS) for water resources
Weidong Zhao & Yunxia Li

249

An optimization model for the integrated operation of the multiple reservoirs in the Upper Yellow River
Jiaqi Hu, Yangbo Chen & Sichun Gao

254

The research framework of Provincial Digital Water Conservancy
Hanwei Xu, Youjing Zhang & Berhe Getnet Baraki

261

Simplification of an existing mass conservative streamline tracking method for two-dimensional CFD velocity fields
Zhenquan Li & Gordon Mallinson

269

Wetland study in Guangdong Province using remote sensing technology
Ke Dong & Jiang Tao

276

5

Environmental Modelling

 

Water quality monitoring and the morphological paradigm in the Danube River Basin—a review
Jürg Bloesch

285

A GIS-based tool for enhancing the ecomorphological quality of running waters
Michael Haase, Guenter Barnikel, Andreas Stegmaier & Werner Dreher

293

GIS application for mapping of phytoplankton using multi-channel fluorescence probe derived information
Yosef Z. Yacobi & M. Schlichter

301

Predicting soil loss from logging in Malaysia
Hooi Ling Lee, Hock Lye Koh & H. A. Al’Rabia’ah

308

The study of chlorophyll detection in coastal waters based on environmental variables
Chen Xiaoxiang, Ding Xiaoying & Chen Si

316

Development of an environment detection information system and its application in the region of Longyangxia reservoir, upper reach of the Yellow River
Huo Xu & Yongnian Zeng

322

Modelling Everglades fish ecology: role of temperature, hydrology and toxicity
H. L. Koh, H. A. Al-Rabai’ah, D. DeAngelis & H. L. Lee

328

Nutrient export patterns from an agricultural catchment in southeast China
Wenzhi Cao, Huasheng Hong, Yuzhen Zhang, Shiping Yue & Yuanhong Ding

336

Multi-temporal land use mapping using remotely sensed techniques and the integration of a pollutant load model in a GIS
Daniel Ierodiaconou, Laurie Laurenson, Marc Lebanc, Frank Stagnitti, Gordon Duff & Scott Salzman

343

6

Data Observation and Management

 

Spatial and temporal extension of large basin hydrometeorological records using a distributed modelling approach
J. Graham Lang, Janet H. P. Wong, Stephen J. Burges & Maurice B. Danard

355

Comparison of spatial patterns between cellular automata model simulations and remote sensing observations
Qiuwen Chen & Arthur E. Mynett

363

Optimum quantization of remotely sensed rainfall data
D. Han & I. D. Cluckie

371

Estimating daily precipitation for England and Wales using splines with collateral topographic and radar data sets
Neil Stuart & Claire H. Jarvis

378

Mapping landslide susceptibility in the Three Gorges area, China using GIS, expert knowledge and fuzzy logic
A-Xing Zhu, Rongxun Wang, Jianping Qiao, Yongbo Chen, Qiangguo Cai & Chenghu Zhou

385

Verification of an NDVI-evapotranspiration model using a single layer model
Hiroaki Watanabe, So Kazama & Masaki Sawamoto

392

Tracking MCSs automatically based on improved area-overlapped method
Fang Zhaobao, Lin Hui, Wu Lixin, Jiang Jixi & Huang Qiang

401

Desertification and carbon emission in the headwater area of the Yellow River using remote sensing
Yongnian Zeng, Zhaodong Feng & Huo Xu

410

 

 

Key word index

417

Author index

421