Satellite imagery and water ressources in a semi-arid region. Studies are conducted in the frame of the SudMed project

Sustainable management of the water resources for catchments typical of the South of the Mediterranean area associating mountainous water tower, and intermediate zone of transfer with transient storage (dams or lakes) where the rainfed agriculture and the irrigated zones, which mobilize 80 % of the available water resources, dominate. The ambition of this program is to develop methodologies which permit the integration of ground-based data, process models, and remotely sensed satellite data in order to document, understand and predict the evolution of a semi-arid heterogeneous region for a sustainable development.

The scientific approach is based on the synergy between the mathematical modelling and the satellite and in situ observations.