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Water Resources

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Encyclopedia of Remote Sensing

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Freshwater resources; Runoff

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Water resources mainly correspond to freshwater which can be utilized by human beings for irrigation, industrial purposes, and domestic uses. Even though the stocks of water in natural and artificial reservoirs are helpful to increase the available water resources for human society, the flow of water should be mainly regarded as water resources since water is a naturally circulating resource that is constantly recharged. Maximum (potential) availability of renewable freshwater resources under given climatic condition has been traditionally regarded as precipitation minus evapotranspiration, which corresponds to runoff. However, transpiration from soil moisture through crops is contributing to human society and the flux is regarded as water resources as well. Therefore, evapotranspiration from soil moisture in croplands is called as green water nowadays, and conventional water resources withdrawn from rivers, surface water, and...

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Oki, T., Yeh, P.JF. (2014). Water Resources. In: Njoku, E.G. (eds) Encyclopedia of Remote Sensing. Encyclopedia of Earth Sciences Series. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-36699-9_193

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