Research on relationships between dissolved nutrients and land-use at the watershed scale is a high priority for protecting surface water quality. We measured dissolved nitrogen (DN) and ortho-phosphorus (P) along 130 km of the Calapooia River (Oregon, USA) and 44 of its sub-basins for 3 years to test for associations with land-use. Nutrient concentrations were analyzed for spatial and seasonal...

Large-scale infrastructure projects commonly have large effects on the environment. The planned construction of the Nicaragua Canal will irreversibly alter the aquatic environment of Nicaragua in many ways. Two distinct drainage basins (San Juan and Punta Gorda) will be connected and numerous ecosystems will be altered. Considering the project's far-reaching environmental effects, too few studi...

The watershed transformation is the primary tool of Mathematical Morphology for image segmentation. However, the resulting image often appears oversegmented into a large number of tiny regions (basins), most of which are not significant in the problem of domain. In this paper, a method for removing non significant basins is presented. The notions of relative significance and intrinsic significa...

abstract one of the problems in design of irrigation structures is sedimentation control in the inlet to the irrigation networks. water quality for agriculture requires that the sediments be controlled and reduced to the permissible limit at their entrance point to the turnouts and irrigation networks. this is possible by constructing a sedimentation basin. the bigger the basin, the best the re...

The consequences of imposing a sign constraint on the standard Hopfield architecture associative memory model, trained using perceptron like learning rules, is examined. Such learning rules have been shown to have capacity of at most half of their unconstrained versions. This paper reports experimental investigations into the consequences of constraining the sign of the network weights in terms...

In the present study, it was aimed at combining remote sensing technology, geographic information system and statistical data in order to provide a rather rapid, sensitive and comprehensive overview of current situation of Turkish river basins in terms of existing spatial data. For the aim of the study, all statistical information gathered from the national authorities on regional basis was ove...

flood is one of the major natural disasters in iran, which is mostly, affected most parts of the country and caused hazards. therefore, identification of the area with high potential risk of flood occurrence is the main purpose in order to the flood control and reducing its damages. in this research the role of the flood routing in identification of the area with high potential flooding has inv...