NASA evapotranspiration data significantly improve water management for the State of New Mexico
Abstract
NASA has significantly advanced evapotranspiration (ET) data production from Landsat to MODIS, culminating in, for example, the 2018 launch of the ECOSTRESS mission, focused on ET. At the same time, society is increasing demand for ET data, as water resources become more impacted and populations continue to rise. Here, we demonstrate how NASA ET data are being used to improve water management for the State of New Mexico across agriculture, water rights, forest maintenance, and river management. We highlight a particularly significant advance for water rights management, providing direct support for historical beneficial use detected from satellites across decades at the field scale. Critical to the data-decision pipeline is the establishment of application traceability matrices directly defined by decision-makers and data users, with data delivery tailored for individual users, following data use to impact assessment.
- Publication:
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AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts
- Pub Date:
- December 2019
- Bibcode:
- 2019AGUFMPA34A..12F
- Keywords:
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- 1880 Water management;
- HYDROLOGY;
- 4343 Preparedness and planning;
- NATURAL HAZARDS;
- 6309 Decision making under uncertainty;
- POLICY SCIENCES;
- 6620 Science policy;
- POLICY SCIENCES & PUBLIC ISSUES