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Groundwater Levels in Northern Texas High Plains: Baseline for Existing Agricultural Management Practices (with Prasanna H. Gowda, Thomas H. Marek, Terry A. Howell, and Wonsook Ha), Texas Water Journal (2013)

New groundwater policies are being debated for the Northern Texas High Plains because of Ogallala...

 

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Modeling Groundwater Levels on the Calera Aquifer Region in Central Mexico Using ModFlow (with Prasanna H. Gowda, Terry A. Howell, Jean L. Steiner, Francisco Mojarro, Ernesto P. Núñez, and José R. Avila), Journal of Agricultural Science and Technology B (2012)

A conceptual model for the Calera Aquifer has been created to represent the aquifer system...

 

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Canal Structure Automation Rules Using an Accuracy-Based Learning Classifier System, a Genetic Algorithm, and a Hydraulic Simulation Model. I: Design (with G. P. Merkley), Journal of Irrigation and Drainage Engineering (2011)

Using state-of-the-art computational techniques, a genetic algorithm (GA) and an accuracy-based learning classifier system (XCS)...

 

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Canal Structure Automation Rules Using an Accuracy-Based Learning Classifier System, a Genetic Algorithm, and a Hydraulic Simulation Model. II: Results (with G. P. Merkley), Journal of Irrigation and Drainage Engineering (2011)

An accuracy-based learning classifier system (XCS), as described in a companion paper (Part I: Design),...

 

Proceeding Papers and Presentations

Assessing Canal Structure Automation Rules Using an Accuracy-Based Learning Classifier System, a Genetic Algorithm, and a Hydraulic Simulation Model in the Boise River (with Wonsook Ha and Venkataramana Sridhar), Proceedings of the World Environmental and Water Resources Congress EWRI-ASCE (2012)

Using state-of-the-art computational techniques, a genetic algorithm (GA) and an accuracy-based learning classifier system (XCS)...

 

Groundwater Modeling of the Calera Aquifer Region in Central Mexico (with Prasanna H. Gowda, Terry A. Howell, Jean L. Steiner, Francisco Mojarro, Ernesto P. Núñez, and José R. Avila), Proceedings of the World Environmental and Water Resources Congress EWRI-ASCE (2011)

Calera Aquifer is the main source of water for irrigated agriculture, industrial and drinking water...

 

Downscaling of Aircraft-, Landsat-, and MODIS-based Land Surface Temperature Images with Support Vector Machines (with Wonsook Ha, Prasanna H. Gowda, Thomas Oommen, and Terry A. Howell), Proceedings of the AGU Fall Meeting (2010)

High spatial resolution Land Surface Temperature (LST) images are required to estimate evapotranspiration (ET) at...

 

Downscaling Surface Temperature Images with TsHARP (with Wonsook Ha, Prasanna H. Gowda, Terry A. Howell, George Paul, and Sukantu Basu), Proceedings of the 5th Decennial Conference in Irrigation and Drainage (2010)

Daily evapotranspiration (ET) maps would significantly improve assessing crop water requirements, especially in the Texas...

 

Evaluation of Four Water Management Policies for Ogallala Aquifer Sustainability in the Texas High Plains (with Prasanna Gowda, Terry Howell, Thomas Marek, Wonsook Ha, and Lal Almas), American Geophysical Union Meeting, Paper No. H11L-0931 (2010)

Diminishing groundwater supply in the Ogallala Aquifer will severely reduce regional crop and animal production...

 

Vegetation Fraction Mapping with High Resolution Multispectral Data in the Texas High Plains (with Susan O’Shaughnessy, Prasanna H. Gowda, Sukantu Basu, Paul D. Colaizzi, Terry Howell, and Urls Schulthess), Proceedings of the AGU Fall Meeting (2010)

Land surface models use vegetation fraction to more accurately partition latent, sensible and soil heat...

 

Modeling Groundwater Levels in the Northern High Plains of Texas (with Prasanna H. Gowda, Lal K. Almas, Thomas H. Marek, Terry A. Howell, and Wonsook Ha), Proceedings of the ASABE Annual International Meeting, Oral Presentation Paper No. 1008852 (2010)

Future changes in groundwater policy and the use of alternative technologies will have to be...

 

Validating Northern Texas High Plains Groundwater Model with Data from Observation Wells (with Prasanna H. Gowda, Debasmita Misra, Thomas H. Marek, and Terry A. Howell), Proceedings of the AGU Fall Meeting, Poster Presentation No. H21C-0858 (2009)

Diminishing groundwater supplies will severely reduce regional crop and animal production in the Northern High...

 

Irrigated Area Mapping in the Northern High Plains of Texas Using Landsat Thematic Mapper Data (with Chandrushekar M. Biradar, Prasanna H. Gowda, Terry A. Howell, and Thomas H. Marek), Proceedings of the AGU Fall Meeting, Poster Presentation No. H21C-0855 (2009)

Irrigated agriculture in the Texas High Plains accounts for a major portion of the groundwater...

 

Calibrating Northern Texas High Plains Groundwater Model (with Prasanna H. Gowda, Debasmita Misra, Thomas H. Marek, and Terry A. Howell), Proceedings of the ASABE Annual International Meeting, Oral Presentation Paper No. 096270 (2009)

In the Northern High Plains of Texas, irrigated crop production accounts for a major portion...

 

Groundwater Modeling of the Texas High Plains Using MODFLOW (with Prasanna H. Gowda, Debasmita Misra, Thomas H. Marek, and Terry A. Howell), Proceedings of the AGU Fall Meeting, Poster Presentation No. H21D-0861 (2008)

The objective of this study was to develop and calibrate a groundwater model for a...