Keynote and Invited Speakers
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"Remote Sensing in Global Change Hydrology" Prof. Qiuhong Tang Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China |
Humanity has become an important driving force of changes to the Earth’s hydrosphere in the human dominated geological epoch – the Anthropocene. Emerging challenges of water security require understanding the evolving global water system and the broad array of anthropogenic factors that influencing the water system. Remote sensing enables relatively long-term consistent observations of many variables of the terrestrial water cycle with unprecedented spatial coverage, providing precious data for quantifying processes and states of the global water system.
This presentation will introduce Global Change Hydrology, an emerging discipline representing an evolution of hydrological sciences towards the linkage with global environmental change for understanding and quantifying the human fingerprint in the global water system. The data-rich environment largely created by advances in remote sensing has boosted research in Global Change Hydrology. The scientific knowledge derived from remotely sensed data, which is nearly impossible to obtain from in-situ measurements, has deepened our understanding of the changing water cycle and the natural and anthropogenic factors contributing to the change. This presentation will also point out the potential and limitation of remote sensing in the field of global change hydrology as well as the directions for future research.
