Engineering Research Equipment Grant: Image Processing Equipment for Watershed Analysis

这项设备赠款是为了提高应用于流域水文学研究的自动图像处理能力，以确定流域的持水特征，并估计径流产生量。从土壤类型分布、地形、降雨分布和土地利用等信息中提取的数据也将用于估计洪水的可能性。图像处理设备将用于教学和培训研究人员，以及实施算法创新、软件开发和研究进展。

This equipment grant is to improve the capability for automatic image processing as applied to research in watershed hydrology to determine water retention characteristics of basins, and to estimate runoff production. Data extracted from maps of soil-type distribution, topography, rainfall distribution and land use, among other information, will be used also to estimate the potential of floods. The image processing equipment will be used in teaching students and training researchers, and in implementing algorithmic innovations, software development and research progress.