Definition
Rural hydrologic decision support, in a general sense, is a tool or data set that supports decision makers with an emphasis on hydrology and its effects on other environmental factors. A hydrologic model such as the Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) could be referred to as a rural hydrologic decision support tool.
Historical Background
The typical data used for hydrologic decision support were streamflow datasets or possibly groundwater depth. For example, the United States Geological Survey (USGS) maintains a large number of stream gauges around the US. Figure 1 shows an example of stream gauge data output. Gauges, such as the one on the Mississippi River at St. Louis, MO, are placed along major river systems.
An example of a stream gauge data set (Data is from the USGS, http://waterdata.usgs.gov/mo/nwis/, gauge 70100000 along the Mississippi...
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Grabow, D. (2017). Rural Hydrologic Decision Support. In: Shekhar, S., Xiong, H., Zhou, X. (eds) Encyclopedia of GIS. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-17885-1_1155
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