Assessment of the spatial distribution of surface water resources in Changchun, China using remote sensing

Changchun is a major city in East Asia, and is both an industrial and agricultural base in China. Unfortunately, the volume of surface water available to the city has restricted its development. To monitor the status of surface water resources, this study used a combination of remote sensing and a g...

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Published in:Aqua (London) 2018-08, Vol.67 (5), p.jws2018155
Main Authors: You, Qin, Chai, Yuan, Jiang, Chunlei
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Agricultural land
Agriculture
Aquifers
Arable land
Area
Availability
Cities
Climate change
Digital Elevation Models
Digital mapping
Economic development
Environmental impact
Geographic information systems
Geographical information systems
Groundwater
Hydrologic cycle
Industrial areas
Information systems
Land use
Population growth
Remote sensing
Spatial distribution
Surface water
Surface water availability
Urban areas
Water availability
Water resources
Water use
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Summary:Changchun is a major city in East Asia, and is both an industrial and agricultural base in China. Unfortunately, the volume of surface water available to the city has restricted its development. To monitor the status of surface water resources, this study used a combination of remote sensing and a geographic information system to analyze the volume of surface water and the water use force of both land use types. The areas with surface water were extracted when the maximal value of the normalized difference water index (NDWI) was greater than 0.1. The volume of the surface water was calculated from the digital elevation map (DEM) data. Finally, the water use force was assessed using ArcGIS software. The results indicated that there was an available volume of 18.23 × 109 m3 of surface water in Changchun, and 21% of the available area had little surface water. Changchun City and Jiutai County had more surface water than other areas in the vicinity of Changchun. It was found that 7% of the urban-industrial area was located in areas with the worst surface water availability, while 66% of the arable land area was located in areas which exceeded the worse surface water availability areas.
ISSN:0003-7214
1606-9935
1605-3974
DOI:10.2166/aqua.2018.155