2013/09/29 by Kevin Rojas Laura, Laura, Kevin Rojas, Christhian Cardenas Alvarez +1
Environmental Science · Energy · #Water Resource Management and Quality #Environmental and Ecological Studies
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1309.7609
The effects of global climate change on Peruvian glaciers have brought about\nseveral processes of deglaciation during the last few years. The immediate\neffect is the change of size of lakes and rivers. Public institutions that\nmonitor water resources currently have only recent studies which make up less\nthan 10% of the total. The effects of climate change and the lack of updated\ninformation intensify social-economic problems related to water resources in\nPeru. The objective of this research is to develop a software application to\nautomate the Cadastral Registry of Water Bodies in Peru, using techniques of\ndigital image processing, which would provide tools for detection, record,\ntemporal analysis and visualization of water bodies. The images used are from\nthe satellite Landsat5, which undergo a pre-processing of calibration and\ncorrection of the satellite. Detection results are archived into a file that\ncontains location vectors and images of the segmentated bodies of water.\n