Contents
Land Use/Land Cover Monitoring and Geospatial Technologies:
An Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Tammy E. Parece and James B. Campbell
Using Remote Sensing to Map and Monitor Water Resources
in Arid and Semiarid Regions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Victor Klemas and Aline Pieterse
Imaging Spectrometry of Inland Water Quality in Italy Using MIVIS:
An Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Claudia Giardino, Mariano Bresciani, Erica Matta, and Vittorio E. Brando
Using Remote Sensing to Assess the Impact of Human Activities
on Water Quality: Case Study of Lake Taihu, China . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Paolo Villa, Hongtao Duan, and Steven Arthur Loiselle
Remote Sensing for Regional Lake Water Quality Assessment:
Capabilities and Limitations of Current and Upcoming
Satellite Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
Leif G. Olmanson, Patrick L. Brezonik, and Marvin E. Bauer
Interactive Geospatial Analysis Tool for Estimating Watershed-Scale
Consumptive Use: Potomac River Basin Case Study . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
Jan Ducnuigeen, Sarah N. Ahmed, Karin R. Bencala,
Heidi L.N. Moltz, Andrea Nagel, and Cherie L. Schultz
Advances in Water Sensor Technologies and Real-Time Water
Monitoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171
Tamim Younos and Christopher J. Heyer
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