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THE USE OF LANDSAT IMAGERY IN GROUND WATER EXPLORATION 1
Author(s) -
Foster Kennith E.,
Schowengerdt Robert A.,
Glass Charles E.
Publication year - 1980
Publication title -
jawra journal of the american water resources association
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.957
H-Index - 105
eISSN - 1752-1688
pISSN - 1093-474X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1752-1688.1980.tb02511.x
Subject(s) - lineament , groundwater , satellite imagery , ground truth , water resources , satellite , hydrology (agriculture) , remote sensing , acre , geology , environmental science , tectonics , seismology , biology , computer science , engineering , agroforestry , ecology , geotechnical engineering , machine learning , aerospace engineering
Water supplies in Arizona are becoming increasingly limited because municipal, industrial, and agricultural consumption depletes ground water reserves by three million acre‐feet annually. Additional demands are being created by electric power generation, particularly in northeastern Arizona where ground water pumpage is expected to escalate by sixfold during the next 10 years. The results of a study to determine the ease and feasibility of using satellite imagery as a tool in exploring for new sources of ground water are reported. Lineaments detected on Landsat images of two sites were mapped and correlated with well data in the two study areas by means of well centered grid model. The correlations developed between lineament density and water well data in the two study sites support the hypothesis that a relationship exists between regional geologic structure and the presence of ground water.