The Tonle Sap

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Online Course Section: Remote Sensing of the Ecology and Functioning of the Mekong River Basin with Special Reference to the Tonle Sap Lesson: The Tonle Sap Geoscience and Remote Sensing. This course is brought to you by Gilad James Mystery School. Learn more at Gilad . Introduction The management of large transnational river basins is subject to a range of challenges stemming from differing national priorities, governance of land use activities and resource use, and differences in institutional capacity, data gathering and data sharing. Over vast, often inaccessible areas, remote sensing allows for rapid assessment of ecological resources and hydrological processes. This includes quantification of the extent and ecological functioning of vegetation communities, defining the distribution, duration and timing of flooding, measurement of water quality parameters, groundwater assessment, habitat assessment, and predictive mode