1st Edition
Integrating GIS, Remote Sensing, and Mathematical Modelling for Surface Water Quality Management in Irrigated Watersheds UNESCO-IHE PhD Thesis
By Amel Moustafa Azab
Copyright 2012
238 Pages
by
CRC Press
238 Pages
by
CRC Press
The intensive use of limited water resources, the growing population rates and the various increasing human activities put high and continuous stresses on these resources. Major problems affecting the water quality of rivers, streams and lakes may arise from inadequately treated sewage, poor land use practices, inadequate controls on the discharges of industrial waste waters, uncontrolled poor... Read more
1. INTRODUCTION 1.1. Background 1.2. The Nature And Characteristics Of Irrigated Watersheds 1.3. Water Quality Problems In Connected Catchment-Shallow Lake Systems1.4. Hydroinformatics Applied To Water Quality Management 1.5. The Importance Of Data Availability 1.6. The Need For Integrated Management Tools 1.7. Problem Statement 1.8. Research Objectives 1.9. Thesis Outline 2. WATER QUALITY MANAGEMENT IN CONNECTED CATCHMENT[1]SHALLOW LAKE SYSTEMS 2.1. Major Characteristics Of Water Bodies 2.2. Surface Water Quality And Pollution Issues In Watersheds 2.3. Irrigated Watersheds And Catchment–Lake Systems: Water Quality Issues 2.4. Lakes And Environmental Risks 2.5. Eutrophication Of Shallow Lakes 2.6. Water Quality Management: Trends And Issues 3. INTEGRATING TOOLS FOR SURFACE WATER QUALITY MANAGEMENT 3.1. Monitoring And Data Acquisition Techniques 3.2. GIS Applications In Water Quality: Data Handling, Processing And Modelling 3.3. Hydrodynamic-Water Quality Modelling Approaches For Catchment – Shallow Lake Systems 3.4. Applications of remote sensing in surface water quality modelling 3.5. Water quality management information systems 4. FRAMEWORK OF THE DEVELOPED WATER QUALITY MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEM (FOR DRAINAGE – SHALLOW LAKE CATCHMENT) 4.1. Introduction To Water Quality Management Information System WQMIS For A Connected Catchment Lake System 4.2. WQMIS Components And Structure 5. DESCRIPTION OF THE STUDY AREA AND DATA INVENTORY 5.1. Introduction 5.2. The Present Status Of The Nile Delta As An Irrigated Agricultural Watershed 5.3. The Need For Drainage Water Reuse In Nile Delta 5.4. The Present Status Of The Drainage Network And The Northern Lakes 5.5. Selected pilot watershed (edko catchment- shallow lake system) 5.6. data sources and analysis 6. WATER AND NUTRIENTS MASS BALANCE OF CATCHMENT - LAKE SYSTEM 6.1. Introduction 6.2. Lake water balance 6.3. Calculation of lake residence time 6.4. Estimation of nutrients loads 7. DEVELOPMENT OF HYDRODYNAMIC, WATER QUALITY AND EUTROPHICATION MODELS 7.1. Introduction 7.2. Models Building 7.3. Base Model Of The Catchment Shallow Lake System: Linking Of 1d-2d Hydrodynamic Modelling 7.4. Detailed 2d Hydrodynamic Shallow Lake Model 7.5. 2D water quality model of shallow lake system 8. APPLICATION OF REMOTE SENSING FOR ADJUSTMENT AND CALIBRATION OF WATER QUALITY MODEL 8.1. Introduction 8.2. Description of the applied remote sensing methods 8.3. Linking Remote Sensing With Water Quality And Eutrophication Models: Calibration Procedures 8.4. Spatial Pattern Calibration For Tsm Using Modis Images 8.5. spatial and temporal quantitative calibration of water quality model 8.6. Spatial and temporal quantitative calibration of the screening eutrophication model 8.7. Uncertainties within the applied tools and methods 9. APPLICATION OF THE DEVELOPED (WQMIS) AS A DECISION SUPPORT TOOL FOR LAKE MANAGEMENT 9.1. Decision Support For Lake Water Management 9.2. Management Prediction Scenarios For Shallow Lake System 10. CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS.
Biography
Amel Moustafa AZAB, Master of Science in Irrigation and Hydraulics, Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University, Egypt born in Cairo, Egypt.
