Watersheds as a sustainable development tool

Author

ÖZel, Mehmet Emin ; Yildirim, Hulya

Author_Institution

Remote Sensing Center, COMU, Canakkale, Turkey

fYear

2003

fDate

20-22 Nov. 2003

Firstpage

649

Lastpage

651

Abstract

In Turkey, a number of watershed-based development and application projects have been under consideration and are at various phases of development. Watersheds are gaining critical roles for sustainable development programs all over the world. In this respect, it will be useful to look at the entire watershed boundaries of Turkey. The list taken from State Hydrolics Works of Turkey (DSI), contains 26 watersheds. In this communication we review the very basic information about Turkish Watersheds and discuss some criteria about their classification based on EU Land-Water-MED Program.

Keywords

Global Positioning System; geographic information systems; hydrological techniques; remote sensing; sustainable development; DSI; EU Land-Water-MED Program; application projects; state hydrolics works; sustainable development programs; sustainable development tool; watershed boundaries; watershed-based development; Application software; Geographic Information Systems; Physics computing; Remote monitoring; Remote sensing; Rivers; Satellites; Space technology; Sustainable development; Water resources;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Recent Advances in Space Technologies, 2003. RAST '03. International Conference on. Proceedings of

Conference_Location

Istanbul, Turkey

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8142-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/RAST.2003.1303994

Filename

1303994