Human activities within a watershed, such as agriculture, urbanization, and dam building, may affect the sediment yield from the watershed. Because the equilibrium geomorphic form of an estuary is dependent in part on the sediment supply from the watershed, anthropogenic activities within the watershed have the potential to affect estuary geomorphology. The Sacramento River drains the northern ...

This study assessed fecal coliform contamination in the Wachusett Reservoir Watershed in Massachusetts, USA using Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) because bacteria are one of the major water quality parameters of concern. The bacteria subroutine in SWAT, considering in-stream bacteria die-off only, was modified in this study to include solar radiation-associated die-off and the contributio...

Fernand MeyerCentre de Morphologie MathématiqueMines-ParisTech () Watersheds, waterfalls, on edge or node weighted graphs 2012 February 29 1 / 201 arXi Introduction The watershed transform is one of the major image segmentation tools [4], used in the community of mathematical morphology and beyond. If the watershed is a successful concept, there is another side of the coin: a number of definiti...

Studies have demonstrated some P loss reduction following implementation of remedial strategies at field scales. However, there has been little coordinated evaluation of best management practices (BMPs) on a watershed scale to show where, when, and which work most effectively. Thus, it is still difficult to answer with a degree of certainty, critical questions such as, how long before we see a ...

The revised universal soil loss equation (RUSLE), the sediment delivery distributed (SEDD) model, and ArcView GIS were used to estimate the impacts of no-till practice on soil erosion and sediment yield in Pataha Creek Watershed, a typical dryland agricultural watershed in southeastern Washington. The results showed that the average cell soil loss decreased from 11.09 to 3.10 t/ha yr for the wh...

Image processing is a computational method for various reconstructing process used in the images. Segmentation refers to the procedure of splitting a digital image into many segments. Medical imaging is the system and development used to create imagery of the human body for clinical purposes or medical science. Image gradient is a function which is used to take information from images. A waters...

Watershed transform has been widely used in medical image segmentation. One fundamental problem with it is over-segmentation. There are mainly two approaches to deal with this problem: hierarchical segmentation and segmentation with markers. The markers, either automatically extractedor interactively generated, aremostlyused in thehomotopymodification of morphological gradients prior to the wat...

A Geographic Information System (GIS)–based, lumped parameter water quality model was developed to estimate the spatial and temporal nitrogen–loading patterns for lower coastal plain watersheds in eastern North Carolina. The model uses a spatially distributed delivery ratio (DR) parameter to account for nitrogen retention or loss along a drainage network. Delivery ratios are calculated from tim...

Determining the relative contributions of nitrate contamination in agricultural watersheds characterized by applications of both mineral and animal waste nitrogen to fields is important in evaluating the environmental consequences of these practices. Here, the use of nitrate–nitrogen (NO3−–N) stable isotopes to identify contaminant sources was examined in surface waters of an agricultural water...

We constructed watershed mass-balance budgets of carbon (C) and nitrogen (N) and measured seasonal net N mineralization in an attempt to account for nearly 40 years of large discrepancies in stream NO,-N export in two adjacent, gauged watersheds at the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service's Fernow Experimental Forest, WV. These watersheds have similar management histories, varying prim...