This five-week course hosted by NASA's Applied Remote Sensing Training Program (ARSET) covers precipitation (rainfall and snow fraction), soil moisture, evapotranspiratoin, runoff and streamflow, groundwater, and lake level heights. Attendees are introduced to a number of NASA data products.
Attendees will be able to use NASA remote sensing observations and land-atmosphere models to:
Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2015
An overview of the ARSET program; an overview of water resource management; satellites and earth science models useful for water resource management; water resource data search, access, analysis and visualization tools; and water resource data applications.
Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2015
Precipitation data products from Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) and Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM), snow cover data from Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS), and an overview of soil moisture data from Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP).
Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2015
An overview of runoff and streamflow data and access, as well as lake level height data and access.
Tuesday, Nov. 03, 2015
The importance of evapotranspiration (ET), challenges of measuring ET, benefits and opportunities of using remote sensing for ET, methods of deriving ET using remote sensing, Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) satellites, global groundwater stress, site-specific examples, and uncertainty in global groundwater storage.
Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2015
An overview of land data assimilation models, a GIS demonstration, training summary and important announcements.
Mehta, A.; Schmidt, C.; Blevins, B.; Njoku, E.; Thomas, B.; Kumar, S. (2015). Water Resource Management Using NASA Earth Science Data. NASA Applied Remote Sensing Training Program (ARSET). https://www.earthdata.nasa.gov/learn/trainings/water-resource-management-using-nasa-earth-science-data