Simulating Rainfall, Water Evaporation and Groundwater Flow in Three-Dimensional Satellite Images with Cellular Automata
Moises Espinola (1), Jose A Piedra-Fernandez (1), Rosa Ayala (1),
Luis Iribarne (1),
Saturnino Leguizamon (2), James Z Wang (3)
(1) University of Almeria, Spain
(2) National Technological University, Argentina
(3) The Pennsylvania State University, USA
Abstract:
Remote sensing has been used in numerous environmental simulations
with the aim of solving and improving many different kinds of
problems, e.g., meteorology applications, soil quality studies,
water resource exploration, and environmental protection. Cellular
automata have been widely used in the field of remote sensing for
simulating natural phenomena over two-dimensional satellite
images. However, simulations on Digital Elevation Model (DEM), or
three-dimensional (3D) satellite images, are rare. This paper presents
a study of modeling and simulation of the weather phenomena of
rainfall, water evaporation and groundwater flow in 3D satellite
images through a new algorithm named RACA (RAinfall with Cellular
Automata). The aim of RACA is to obtain, from the simulation,
numerical and 3D results related to the water level that allow us to
make decisions on important issues such as preventing the destruction
of human life and property from future natural disasters in urban
areas with probability of flooding, establishing future construction
projects and urban planning away from locations with high probability
of flooding, or estimating the future water supply of a population.
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Citation:
Moises Espinola, Jose A. Piedra-Fernandez, Rosa Ayala, Luis Iribarne,
Saturnino Leguizamon and James Z. Wang, ``Simulating Rainfall, Water
Evaporation and Groundwater Flow in Three-Dimensional Satellite Images
with Cellular Automata,'' Simulation Modelling Practice and Theory,
vol. 67, pp. 89-99, Elsevier, 2016.
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