The use of geotechnology in environmental education and water quality monitoring

Abstract

The technologies that use satellites such as remote sensing can be useful for an effective citizen training regarding environmental education, because by acquiring knowledge about this technology, it can contribute to the conservation and monitoring of water quality. The objective of this research was to identify the gaps between remote sensing, environmental education, and water quality and maintenance. The method employed was inductive, with quantitative and qualitative scope, and observational nature, with a search for secondary data in electronic links such as Google Scholar. The data obtained and analyzed statistically (mean, standard deviation, absolute and relative frequencies), indicated that the concern with water quality goes through Environmental Education, whether in Morocco or in China. Environmental education (n = 6; 30%), still not effective as a discipline focused on the conservation of water quality, and water monitoring (n = 7; 35%), based on optically active physicochemical parameters, such as total phosphorus and total dissolved solids, as well as biological, such as algae (n = 1; 5%), are already identified through the use of hyper spectroscopic remote sensing, either in lotic or lentic bodies. Therefore, it is to be expected that the gaps in investment and training of people web will become more effective, to further feed the existing databases with information, both internationally and nationally.