DWSM, the dynamic watershed simulation model, was expanded with a subsurface and a reservoir flow routing schemes. The hydrology and sediment components of the model were applied to three agricultural watersheds in Illinois, Big Ditch (100 km2), Court Creek (250 km2), and Upper Sangamon River (2,400 km2), to simulate spatially and temporally varying surface and subsurface storm water runoff, pr...

In the recent past, the Sepetiba Bay watershed, located in the Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil has experienced rapid industrial development and population growth, as well as an increase in water pollution and environmental degradation. To analyze the complex interrelationships among the agents affecting the Sepetibza Bay environment, a system dynamics model was developed. The model builds on exten...

Remote Sensing and Geographical Information System (GIS) has become an efficient tool in delineation of drainage pattern and water resources management and its planning. Adyar watershed in the Chennai basin with an area of 686.13 Km 2 was taken up for the study. In the present study, with the aid of GIS several morphometric parameters were determined to understand the nature, landscape developm...

The hydrology, sediment, and pesticide transport components of the Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) were evaluated on the northern San Joaquin Valley watershed of California. The Nash-Sutcliffe coefficients for monthly stream flow and sediment load ranged from 0.49 to 0.99 over the watershed during the study period of 1992-2005. The calibrated SWAT model was applied to simulate fate and tr...

An efficient model to store and retrieve surface watershed boundaries using graph theoretic approaches is proposed. Our approach utilizes three algorithms and accepts as input standard digital elevation models derived stream catchment boundaries. The first is called Modified Nested Set (MNS), which is a generalized depth first graph traversal algorithm that searches across stream reaches (verti...

In a split sample design, we examine the impact of federal funding availability on Willingness to Pay (WTP) for watershed management program attributes and tradeoffs in a choice experiment. We also evaluate how presenting respondents with different sets of choice attributes, in alternative survey designs, affects the estimation of preference functions. We also compared preferences for watershed...

The comprehensive and systematic management of watersheds is essential for reducing the adverse environmental impacts arising from anthropogenically caused erosion and subsequent sedimentation. This paper describes a computational methodology that is designed to serve as a watershed decision support system and is capable of controlling environmental impacts of non-point source pollution resulti...

Image segmentation is the basis for computer vision and object recognition. Watershed transform is one of the common methods used for region based segmentation. The previous watershed methods results in over segmentation. In this paper we present a novel method for efficient image segmentation by using bit-plane slicing and markercontrolled watershed. Bit-Plane slicing method produces the slice...

Human activities within a watershed, such as agriculture, urbanization, and dam building, may affect the sediment yield from the watershed. Because the equilibrium geomorphic form of an estuary is dependent in part on the sediment supply from the watershed, anthropogenic activities within the watershed have the potential to affect estuary geomorphology. The Sacramento River drains the northern ...

This study assessed fecal coliform contamination in the Wachusett Reservoir Watershed in Massachusetts, USA using Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) because bacteria are one of the major water quality parameters of concern. The bacteria subroutine in SWAT, considering in-stream bacteria die-off only, was modified in this study to include solar radiation-associated die-off and the contributio...