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Remote sensing is becoming an extremely important research tool in modern resource management techniques. Water resource managers can use remote sensing systems to provide supplmental information in regions where planning has been hampered by the lack of suitable hydrologic data and other resource information. Continued pressure for encroachment and development on flood plains will generate a need for more comprehensive planning based on timely and accurate information about an entire river basin or watershed. With respect to flood plain delineation, remote sensors cannot be used to predict the height of future floods. They can provide information to indicate areas that have flooded which should help improve flood predictions based on theoretical models. Remote sensors offer a dynamic resource inventory system which can be used to complement traditional detailed studies and serve as an important source of information in regions where detailed studies are not available. Remote sensors generate a great deal of data and there is danger of accumulating more information than can be utilized. This problem can be largely overcome by maintaining a close working relationship between scientists working on applications of the sensors and resource managers who will use the information to help solve important natural resource problems. (Author)