Satellite Remote Sensing
Lake Victoria Basin (LVB)’s overall water movement expressed through the hydrological cycle is characterised by a simple water balance equation: \(\bigtriangleup S =P-E-Q\) , where \(\bigtriangleup S\) is the basin’s total water storage (TWS representing
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Lake Victoria Monitored from Space
Lake Victoria Monitored from Space
Joseph Awange
Lake Victoria Monitored from Space
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Joseph Awange School of Earth and Planetary Sciences (Spatial Sciences Discipline) Curtin University Perth, WA, Australia
ISBN 978-3-030-60550-6 ISBN 978-3-030-60551-3 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-60551-3
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To the memories of my late parents (James Odhiambo Awange and Margaret Atieno Awange) and my late grandmothers (Amelea Gwada and Rosalina Omulo Odera). The love you showered on me is still fresh like the waters of Lake Victoria. You are greatly missed. Joseph L. Awange Perth Australia, September 2020
Foreword
Joseph L. Awange is truly an interdisciplinary scientist who was trained in geodesy, geomathematics, Geographic Information Science (GIS), and remote sensing, and he excels at addressing contemporary scientific questions and applications including climate change, hydrology, flooding, drought, and water resources management. Throughout his professional career, he has used novel mathematical formalism, geodetic and passive remote sensing observations, and four-dimensional assimilative hydrologic modeling regimes to quantify both surface and groundwater processes, toward solving timely scientific problems and applications to benefit people in need. Like his many excellent peer-reviewed publications and books, this book on Lake Victoria Monitored from Space is no exception. Using Lake Victoria or Victoria Nyanza, one of Africa’s Great Lakes, as a poster child of water bodies under climate stress in northeastern Africa, he elaborated on the critical societal import
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