Satellite driven modeling of snow runoff in a small semi-arid mountainous watershed in Morocco

Author

Chaponniere, A. ; Maisongrande, P. ; Escadafal, R. ; De Solan, R.B. ; Chehbouni, G.

Author_Institution

Centre d´´Etudes Spatiales de la Biosphere, Toulouse, France

Volume

2

fYear

2003

fDate

21-25 July 2003

Firstpage

1181

Abstract

The use of satellite data to monitor the snow contribution to runoff in a small semi-arid mountainous sub-watershed is explored. The Rehraya watershed, 228km² is located in the Atlas range. Its altitude range from 1068 to 4084m and its hydrological regime is characterized by an important snow contribution. The "soil and water assessment tool" has been selected to model the watershed\´s functioning and first results showed some limitations. To partly overcome the lack of climatic data over this area, we extract the snow extent from satellite images and we integrate this information in the model which should lead to better results.

Keywords

climatology; hydrology; snow; 1068 to 4084 m; LandSat TM; Morocco; Rehraya watershed; Spot VGT; hydrological modeling; mountainous watershed; satellite driven modeling; semiarid watershed; snow cover index; snow runoff; soil and water assessment tool; Data mining; Hydrologic measurements; Information analysis; Monitoring; Remote sensing; Rivers; Satellites; Sea surface; Snow; Water storage;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2003. IGARSS '03. Proceedings. 2003 IEEE International

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7929-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.2003.1294051

Filename

1294051