Modelling water availability and climate change with satellite remote sensing data

摘要

Seasonal variation in water availability has tremendous societal and economic impacts on Ondo-State in southwestern Nigeria, because the economy is mainly agrarian and it basically depends on rain-fed agriculture. The agricultural sector in this part of the world has been witnessing a shift in agricultural calendar and decline in productivity as has been observed in other parts of the world (Dow et ah, 2009). The possible explanation for this seasonal variation in water availability is the change in climate.