Take Lake Mead to tackle the drought by remote sensing and two-layer current approximation model

Chen peng Deng

doi:10.1117/12.2667269

10 February 2023 Take Lake Mead to tackle the drought by remote sensing and two-layer current approximation model

Chen peng Deng

Proceedings Volume 12552, International Conference on Geographic Information and Remote Sensing Technology (GIRST 2022); 125521U (2023) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2667269
Event: International Conference on Geographic Information and Remote Sensing Technology (GIRST 2022), 2022, Kunming, China

Abstract

As the drought continues to worsen, the water level at Lake Mead, which is the largest reservoir in the Colorado River basin, has fallen to an all-time low. And its water level has fallen faster than experts had predicted. The models predict that if the drought continues, Lake Mead's water level will drop to less than 1000 feet by the middle of the century. If the Wastewater Recovery Program (WRP) is implemented, the drought trend in Lake Mead would be greatly alleviated. From the models prediction, the water level after WRP reach 1083.43 in 2050, which is greatly larger than the original value (985.86) without WRP.

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Chen peng Deng "Take Lake Mead to tackle the drought by remote sensing and two-layer current approximation model", Proc. SPIE 12552, International Conference on Geographic Information and Remote Sensing Technology (GIRST 2022), 125521U (10 February 2023); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2667269

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