Flood recurrence frequency is increasing in recent times due to various causes, including climate and land use change. Monitoring of flood events evolution through satellite data is a task of maximal importance to timely provide information about actually flooded areas, escape pathways, or infrastructure damages. Moreover, accurate knowledge of extents and location of flooded areas in past even...

Vegetated drainages are an effective method for removal of pollutants associated with agricultural runoff. Leersia oryzoides, a plant common to agricultural ditches, may be particularly effective in remediation; however, research characterizing responses of L. oryzoides to flooding are limited. Soil reduction resulting from flooding can change availability of nutrients to plants via changes in ...

We studied the resident (16S rDNA) and the active (16S rRNA) members of soil archaeal and bacterial communities during rice plant development by sampling three growth stages (vegetative, reproductive and maturity) under field conditions. Additionally, the microbial community was investigated in two non-flooded fields (unplanted, cultivated with upland maize) in order to monitor the reaction of ...

A field soil water balance model is developed for non-ponded “aerobic rice” in North China Plain. Increasing water scarcity necessitates the development of irrigated rice systems that require less water than traditional flooded rice. The aerobic rice is an effort to save water in response to growing worldwide water scarcity with the pressure to reduce water use and increase water productivity i...

The problem of endosulfan bioremediation is poor solubility and restriction of appropriate biocatalyst. One promising approach in increasing the bioavailability of this organic compound is addition of surfactants. The synthetic surfactant Tween 80 was non-toxic to soil microorganisms and inert to the soil matrix and had the additional benefit of causing an enhanced dissolution rate for single c...

Plastic mulching with drip irrigation is a new water-saving rice cultivation technology, but little is known on its productivity and water-saving capacity. This study aimed to assess the production potential, performance, and water use efficiency (WUE) of rice under plastic mulching with drip irrigation. Field experiments were conducted over 2 years with two rice cultivars under different culti...

Predicting post-mining water quality is a key task in managing mine drainage. The most scientifically-defensible approach would be to undertake thermodynamics-based modeling of coupled geochemical and hydrodynamic processes occurring in flooded and partly flooded underground workings. Most models currently in use make the fatal assumption of local equilibrium, or else do not include all importa...

Flood maps are a crucial tool to support emergency management, disaster recovery and risk reduction planning. Traditional flood mapping methods are time-consuming, labor intensive, and costly. Our goal in this paper is to introduce a novel technique to aggregate knowledge and information to map coastal flooded areas. We proposed a Difference of Normalized Difference Water Indices (DNDWI) derive...

When flooding occurs, Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imagery is often used to identify flood extent and the affected buildings for two reasons: (i) early disaster response, such as rescue operations, (ii) risk analysis. Furthermore, application of machine learning has been valuable identification damaged buildings. However, performance depends on number quality training data, which scarce in af...