Jun 19, 2012

Review on short course in Hydrology which I attended in Cagliari

Last week I attended a short course entitled " Hydrology and water resources in dynamic climate". The courses stayed for four days (June 4-7, 2012), and was overwhelming in the sense that it covered different issues, starting from fluid mechanics, energy balance, water balance, and some review on remote sensing of surface flux. The first part, fluid mechanics, covered concepts of turbulence, conservation equations (conservation of mass, energy, momentum) and closure problems. The second part of the lecture was on atmospheric boundary layer (ABL), the motivation of studying on ABL for hydrologist, ecologist, climatologist; especially the impact of different layer of the atmosphere on components of hydrological cycles has been discussed. To be frank, it was difficult for me to follow the lecture on modeling approaches of ABL of water balance and energy balances. 

to be continued ..... 


May 26, 2012

online data sources presented by Mahmud 

wrebuet.org/mahmud/blog/3872



May 15, 2012

http://www.ce.utexas.edu/prof/maidment/gishydro/#conf

collection of materia on hydrology and GIS

Mar 14, 2012

Free global and regional geodata

It is always interesting to know important sites to collect free global and regional data set. The following is a collection of some of these data:

1. The Mapping Hacks website

http://www.mappinghacks.com/data/

2. STRM DTM

http://eros.usgs.gov/#/Find_Data/Products_and_Data_Available/SRTM_DTED

3. Global Land Cover Facility

http://glcf.umiacs.umd.edu/index.shtml

4. GeoEye
http://www.geoeye.com/

5. RADARSAT
http://www.asc-csa.gc.ca/eng/satellites/radarsat1/default.asp

6. EnviSat
http://envisat.esa.int/

7. CartoSat
http://isro.org/Cartosat/

8. IRS
http://www.isro.org/satellites/cartosat-1.aspx

9.SatImaging
http://www.satimagingcorp.com/gallery-irs.html

10. ALI and HYPERION
http://eros.usgs.gov/#/Find_Data/Products_and_Data_Available/ALI

11. SPOT
http://www.spotimage.fr

12. Spaceimaging
http://www.euspaceimaging.com/
http://www.spaceimagingme.com/

13. Africover
http://www.africover.org/

14. Africa dissemination service
http://igskmncnwb015.cr.usgs.gov/adds/parameterse.php

15. Geoscientific single images and Country databases supply method
http://www.geoscientific.net/landsat_databases.php

16. Landsat
https://zulu.ssc.nasa.gov/mrsid/

17. Dynamic atlas
http://www.dynamicplanet.com/Support/DP_Downloads.html

18. Aster and Landsat
http://terralook.cr.usgs.gov/

19. Aster
http://asterweb.jpl.nasa.gov/

20. European landscape map
http://www.alterra.wur.nl/UK/research/Specialisation+Geo-information/Projects/LANMAP2/

21. RESPOND tematic maps
http://www.respond-int.org/respondlive/)
http://edcsns17.cr.usgs.gov/EarthExplorer/
http://glcf.umiacs.umd.edu/index.shtml

My Blog

Now I am having my own blog to keep my academic diary on the subject related to hydrology, geomorphology,  environmental sciences, GIS, Remote sensing,  and in between.