A framework is built, wherein hydrological/water quality model is used to measure watershed sustainability. For this framework, watershed sustainability has been defined and quantified by defining social, environmental and biodiversity indicators. By providing weightage to these indicators, a “River Basin Sustainability Index” is built. The watershed sustainability is then calculated based on t...

Theodore E. Grantham, Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, California ([email protected]) Kurt A. Fesenmyer, Trout Unlimited, Boise, Idaho ([email protected]) Ryan Peek, Center for Watershed Sciences, University of California Davis, Davis, California ([email protected]) Eric Holmes, Center for Watershed Sciences, Univers...

Total change in production and productivity are the two important dimensions of benefits of watershed development programmes along with the conservation of land and water resources. To segregate out the impact of various watershed-based interventions on crop productivity, a study was carried out in Bundelkhand region of Madhya Pradesh state of India. Data were collected from 240 farmers’ select...

Watershed management consists of multifunctional activities to manage and address the increasing water resource problems. Ever increasing water demand and rapidly depleting water resources, it has become necessary to develop the adaptation options to recharge groundwater resources. A watershed is a special kind of Common Pool Resources (CPRs); an area is defined by hydrological linkages where o...

Abstract. The watershed transform and the morphological reconstruction are two of the most important operators for image segmentation in the framework of mathematical morphology. In many situations, the segmentation requires the classical watershed transform of a reconstructed image. In this paper, we introduce the IFT-watershed from gray scale marker a method to compute at same time, the recon...

This paper proposes the concept and framework of digital watershed which is divided into three levels such as visual information platform, thematic application system and comprehensive decision-making support system. The construction of distributed hydrology model(DHM) based on digital watershed are discussed. It is shown that digital watershed makes it possible to construct DHM with the real m...

[1] The overall water balance and the sensitivity of watershed runoff to changes in climate are investigated using national databases of climate and streamflow for 1,337 watersheds in the U.S. We document that 1% changes in precipitation result in 1.5–2.5% changes in watershed runoff, depending upon the degree of buffering by storage processes and other factors. Unlike previous research, our ap...

The Cannonsvifle Reservoir watershed is a major component of the unfiltered New York City water suppiy system. The voluntary, incentive-based Watershed Agricultural Program is a collaborative effort among producers, federal, state, and local organizations to address the problem of phosphorus loading effects on water quality through implementation of whole-farm plans. The effectiveness of select...

Watershed segmentation of spectral images is typically achieved by first transforming the high-dimensional input data into a scalar boundary indicator map which is used to derive the watersheds. We propose to combine a Random Forest classifier with the watershed transform and introduce three novel methods to obtain scalar boundary indicator maps from class probability maps. We further introduce...