Salt River Project
ASU-SRP snow surveys show much of Arizona’s headwater snowpack melted in weeks
Repeat airborne snow surveys over the Upper Black River found that due to a dry and warm winter, most of the snow water measured in January and February had melted by mid-March, offering water managers a view of how quickly the season changed. The first flight in January measured about 9.1 thousand acre-feet (TAF) of snow…
Geophysical Research Letters Publication
A new publication in Geophysical Research Letters (Wang et al. 2025) describes the use of high-resolution Planet imagery for mapping snow cover and determining the terrain and vegetation controls at unprecedented scales achieving new insights for the Salt and Verde River basins. Congratulations to the authors associated with the Center for Hydrologic Innovations!
New methods for detecting snow in Arizona for water supply
Congratulations to the team from the Center for Hydrologic Innovations that was recently featured by the Arizona Water Innovation Initiative! Postdoctoral scholar Zhaocheng Wang described the effort as: “Planet imagery is useful for the type of dryland hydrology we have in Arizona. We trained a machine learning model called a convolutional neural network that can…
Forest thinning may provide water benefits downstream
Congratulations to the team from the Center for Hydrologic Innovations that was recently featured by ASU News! Center director Enrique Vivoni described the effort as: “Applied innovation projects, such as this effort in forest health and water resilience, translate research into actions for the benefit of our renewable water supplies. Not only does our work…