Impervious Surface Area: Effects

Humans are changing the world on a global scale by altering land use across the planet. Areas that consist of rooftops, driveways, pavements, and other anthropogenic materials are called impervious cover (IC). Measures of IC are often utilized to represent land cover changes and the environmental im...

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Published inFresh Water and Watersheds pp. 93 - 99
Main Authors Zimmerman, Carl L., Civco, Daniel L.
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published CRC Press 2020
Edition1
Subjects
GIS Software Package
Impervious Surface Area
Energy Balance
NLCD Data
Land Cover Data
Reflectance Band Ratio
Raster Data Type
Total Impervious Area
Hortonian Overland Flow
Eddy Correlation Method
IC
Impervious Surface
Local Hydrologic Cycle
Detention Basins
CDOM
Stream Ecology
United States Geological Survey National
Land Cover
Aral Sea
Raster Data
IC Land
CDOM Absorption
Gray Water Footprint
NLCD
NAIP
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Summary:Humans are changing the world on a global scale by altering land use across the planet. Areas that consist of rooftops, driveways, pavements, and other anthropogenic materials are called impervious cover (IC). Measures of IC are often utilized to represent land cover changes and the environmental impacts of urbanization. The presence of IC in a watershed can have profound impacts on the local receiving waters through a variety of changes to the hydrologic cycle. Because IC can be mapped and analyzed with remote sensing and Geographic Information System (GIS) technologies, areas of IC can be compared across time. New Low Impact Development (LID) methods are becoming available that ameliorate some of the environmental impacts of IC.
ISBN:9781138337565
1138337560
DOI:10.1201/9780429441042-15