Abstract
Water is one of the essential natural resource for the very survival of life becoming a scarce commodity. It is very important to manage this very essential natural resource at micro watershed level for achieving sustainable development. The morphometric analysis plays a vital role in understanding the hydro-geological behavior of drainage basin. Remote sensing and Geographical Information System (GIS) techniques are proven efficient tool for morphometric analysis of a drainage basin throughout the world. Hence, an attempt has been made in this paper to study morphometric parameters of Karadya micro watershed using Geographical information system(GIS) approach. The study reveals that the terrain exhibits dendritic type drainage pattern with highest stream order being third order. The drainage density of watershed is 2.65km-1. The mean bifurcation ratio of the entire basin is 6.73 indicating that the drainage pattern is not much influenced by geological structures. Relief ratio indicates that the discharge capability of these watersheds is very high and the ground water potential is low. Further, the study reveals that GIS techniques proved to be a competent tool in morphometric analysis helps in planning and management of watershed.
Highlights
Water is one of the essential natural resource for the very survival of life on the planet earth
Drainage basin morphometric parameters and stream order characteristics of the area were extracted from the digitized data using the Strahler’s method of stream ordering and DEM and Slope maps were prepared with the help of Remote Sensing and Geographical Information System (GIS) techniques (ArcGIS)
The morphometric analysis of the drainage basin plays an important role in understanding the geo-hydrological behavior of drainage basin and expresses the prevailing climate, geology, geomorphology, structural antecedents of the catchment
Summary
Water is one of the essential natural resource for the very survival of life on the planet earth. This essential natural resource is becoming a scarce commodity due to various reasons needs to be conserved. Conservation of available natural resources through demarcation of potential zones at micro watershed level are primary necessitate for achieving sustainable development. A watershed is an ideal unit calling for multidisciplinary approach to the resource management for insuring continuous benefits on sustainable basis. Morphometric analysis of a watershed provides a quantitative description of the drainage system, which is an important aspect of the characterization of watersheds [32]. An understanding of the hydrological behavior of a watershed is important for effective planning and management of land and water resources development
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