Browsing The Water Center by Subject "land cover"

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    • Forest Cover, Impervious-Surface Area, and the Mitigation of Urbanization Impacts in King County, Washington 

      Booth, Derek B. (University of Washington Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 2000-09)
      For decades, watershed urbanization has been known to have severe consequences on aquatic systems. Although the problem has been long articulated, solutions have proven elusive because of the complexity of the problem, ...

    • A Rapid Land Cover Classification Method for Use in Urban Watershed Analysis 

      Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering; Hill, Kristina; Botsford, Erik; Booth, Derek B. (University of Washington Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 2003-03)
      Because of the profound effect of urban development on aquatic systems, characterizing the land cover of a region is critical for a variety of resource management applications. In the Pacific Northwest, this characterization ...

    • Washington Water Resource: v.10:no.2(1999:spring) 

      Center for Urban Water Resources Management (University of Washington Water Center, 1999)
      Articles include: A Rapid Land Cover Classification Method for Use in Urban Watershed Analysis; Rates of Channel Erosion in Small Urban Streams; Modest Progress on the Long Road to an Effective Water-Resources Management ...

    • Washington Water Resource: v.11:no.4(2000:fall) 

      Center for Urban Water Resources Management (University of Washington Water Center, 2000)
      Articles include: New Metrics to Characterize the Influence of Urban Development on Stream Flow Patterns; A Rapid Land Cover Classification Method for Use in Urban Watershed Analysis; Sampling Benthic Macroinvertebrates ...