The Potential of Satellite and Model Derived Variables for Rainfall-Induced Landslide Initiation Thresholds in Rwanda

Empirical-statistical rainfall landslide initiation thresholds are popularly used for early warning systems to discriminate between the occurrence and non-occurrence of rainfall-induced landslides. However, the few studies that have derived landslide initiation thresholds for landslide-prone and data-scarce Rwanda rely solely on the limited in...

Finding the Optimum Unsaturated Zone Storage Change Estimation Method to Improve Water Accounting in Vietnam

Evaluation of Two Automated Remote Sensing-Based Surface Energy Balance Models for Estimating Daily Evapotranspiration

Using remote sensed actual evaporation to improve hydrological models

In hydrological models evaporation is often still quite uncertain. Potential evaporation is used as input, but the modelling of plant stresses is not always accurate enough to describe the behaviour in reality. In situ measured actual evaporation data is rare, and doing measurements is time consuming and expensive. With the advance of satellite...

Evaporation in conceptual rainfall-runoff models: Testing model realism using remotely sensed evaporation

The procedure to determine evaporation in hydrological models is considered to be unsatisfactory by some researchers; ‘too’ accurate by others. In this procedure catchment scale evaporation is related to some form of potential evaporation, determined with point scale meteorological data. The main criticism is that the potential evaporation is...