Reliable estimates of runoff are required as a part of the information sets that help watershed managers make informed decisions on water resources planning and management. This study was carried out in Shafaroud watershed located in the north of Iran. In order to achieve the best runoff simulation in the study area, first rainfall data of four stations during 1998 to 2011 were collected and co...

abstract the application of the crop growth models could facilitate irrigation water and fertilizer management due to reduce of field visits and direct measurements. these models are often so complex that it is difficult to understand them and some of those input data are not accessible. in this study, a simple model (vsm) was used to yield prediction of corn under different water and nitrogen ...

The interferometric SAR mission TanDEM-X started in 2010 and comprises the two twin satellites TerraSAR-X and TanDEM-X. Its primary objective is to generate a worldwide, consistent, and high-precision digital elevation model (DEM). Two global coverages have been completed until August 2013, and a very good performance has been verified for most of the land masses. However, some areas all around...

abstract major of hydrological systems are very complicated and it is not possible to understand them completely, therefore simplification is necessary to understand or control of a part of the system behavior such as water balance relationships. hydrological models are simple structure of complicated systems in water cycle in the nature. the first goal of a hydrological model is function predi...

large impervious surfaces and man-made waterways are the characteristic of urban area. increasing urbanization and rapid growth of cities in recent decades towards the upstream watershed, has been severely affected on rainfall-runoff processes in urban area. therefore, to computer models in order to illustrate these processes the proper design or assessment of urban drainage systems has special...

in the present study, the soil and water assessment tool (swat 2000) model was tested on both a monthly and yearly basis and applied to the kordan watershed, located in iran. the main objective of the research was to assess the accuracy of the model in sediment-yield and surface water bicarbonate concentration estimation. the attributes of sub-watersheds, tributary channels and the main channel...

A new contact bond model based on the Mohr-Coulomb failure criterion has been implemented in PFC2D to reproduce the behaviour of frictional cohesive (c, φ) geomaterials. According to this model, the bond strength can be clearly divided into two distinct micromechanical contributions: an intergranular friction angle and a cohesive bond force. A parametric analysis has been run to validate the pr...

Radiometric correction is the essential prerequisite to obtain precise and valuable segmentation of remote sensing images, especially when dealing with mountainous regions where the terrain is more likely to be rough. Important applications such as snow cover segmentation have usually to be performed on images of very rough mountainous terrain where this preprocessing step turns out to be espec...