Overview
- Offers space weighing of the Lake
- Provides GRACE satellite that diagnoses the fall in Lake level
- Applies state-of-the-art remote sensing techniques
- Gives numerous examples of the Lake’s challenges and potential
- Presents remote sensing techniques that can be applied to monitor any other lake
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Global and Lake Victoria’s Water Resources
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Remote Sensing Techniques
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Sensing the Lake and Its Basin
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About this book
This book employs a suite of remotely sensed products and advanced technologies to provide the first comprehensive space-based sensing of Lake Victoria, the world’s second largest freshwater lake that supports a livelihood of more than 42 million people, modulates regional climate, but faces myriads of challenges. Proper understanding of the lake and changes in its physical dynamics (e.g., water level, shorelines and areal dynamics) resulting from the impacts of climate variation and climate change as well as anthropogenic (e.g., hydropower and irrigation) is important for its management as well as for strategic development before, during and after climate extremes (e.g., floods and droughts) in order to inform policy formulations, planning and mitigation measures. Owing to its sheer size, and lack of research resources commitment by regional governments that hamper its observations, however, it is a daunting task to undertake studies on Lake Victoria relying solely on in-situ “boots on the ground” measurements, which are sparse, missing in most cases, inconsistent or restricted by governmental red tapes. To unlock the potentials of Lake Victoria, this book argues for the removal of obsolete Nile treaties signed between Britain, Egypt and Sudan in the 1920s and 1950s, which prohibits its utilization by the upstream countries. The book is useful to those in water resources management and policy formulations, hydrologists, environmentalists, engineers and researchers.
In a unique cross-disciplinary approach, the Book articulates the various climatic impacts and explanations from natural and anthropogenic origins, which affected Lake Victoria and its vicinity, including the drastic increase and depletion of water level in the Lake and dams, floods and droughts, water quality/security, crop health, food security, and economic implications. With no exception as in his many publications, Joseph L. Awange used data analysis methodologies including filtering, adjustment theory, and robust statistics, to quantify the hydrologic and other parameters, and their estimated uncertainties. The Book is recommended for readers from a diverse disciplines, including physical and social sciences, policy, law, engineering, and disaster management. Professor C.K. Shum, Ohio State University.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Lake Victoria Monitored from Space
Authors: Joseph Awange
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-60551-3
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-60550-6Published: 18 December 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-60553-7Published: 19 December 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-60551-3Published: 17 December 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 320
Number of Illustrations: 11 b/w illustrations, 105 illustrations in colour
Topics: Hydrogeology, Water Policy/Water Governance/Water Management, Monitoring/Environmental Analysis, Sustainable Development, Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts, Remote Sensing/Photogrammetry