Kuwait Water, Climate & Vegetation Workshop
The Kuwait Water, Climate & Vegetation workshop was held at MIT on August 7-9, 2006.
Workshop Program
The workshop program and list of participants can be found here.
Workshop Presentations
The following were presented during the workshop:
- Prof. Elfatih Eltahir: The Coupling of Climate & Environment: Biosphere-Atmosphere Interactions in Kuwait
- Prof. Hala Al-Jassar & Dr. K. S. Rao: Microwave Soil Moisture Remote Sensing Techniques for Monitoring Soil Moisture of Kuwait Desert
- Prof. Dara Entekhabi: Soil Moisture Remote Sensing: Emerging Models and Observations
- Dr. Samira Omar: Kuwaiti Desert Biodiversity
- Prof. Rafael Bras: Modeling Kuwait's Desert: Water, Vegetation & Topography
- Dr. Waleed Roy: Development of Atlas and Decision Support Tool for the Terrestrial Biodiversity of Kuwait (DSTBK)
- Dr. Ahmed Al-Dousari: Quantitative Estimation of Land Surface Temperature using Remote Sensing
- Dr. Ahmed Al-Dousari: Sustainable Fresh Water Resources Management in Northern Kuwait - A Remote Sensing View from Raudatain Basin
- Dr. Ahmed Al-Dousari: Calibrating the Satellite Precipitation Rates over Kuwait using in-situ Rain Gauge Data
Workshop Outcome
A detailed proposal outline was produced by the group.