Monitoring Groundwater Extraction Using Automated Assessment of Land Subsidence
Abstract
Water security impacts both food and drinking water availability, and is an issue of critical importance especially for nations with scarce water resources or water resources that cross political boundaries. In these nations, water security issues could cause conflicts, particularly as the demand for water grows and climate variability increases the uncertainty of future water availability. Observing and predicting water security issues is an important need for GEOINT that is very challenging to provide. Groundwater, which supplies roughly one third of global water demand, is particularly challenging to monitor without ground-based sampling networks, which typically do not exist or are not made publicly available in many of the nations where water security is most dire. In recognition of this gap in knowledge, the current solicitation seeks proposals that aid in “quantifying groundwater extraction…and municipal/industrial water uses in areas that may experience water scarcity or transboundary issues".
Document Details
- Document Type
- DoD Grant Award
- Publication Date
- May 10, 2022
- Source ID
- HM04762110001
Entities
People
- Ryan Smith
Organizations
- National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
- University of Missouri System