Las Cruces, July 30, 2007: USA :National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, a part of the Department of Defense, is providing $450,000 over three years for the project through its University Research Initiative program. The researchers will enhance existing software tools and develop new techniques for using remote-sensing data to monitor water levels and predict events such as flash floods with precision not currently possible.
Using 25 years’ worth of meteorological and hydrological data, plus continuous updates from satellite imagery and other remote-sensing techniques, the researchers aim to develop tools to monitor and predict flows in real time .The project will create a hydrologic model of the Rio Grande Basin from El Paso north to the river’s headwaters in southern Colorado.
