Abstract
India being one of the leading developing country where 80% of its energy or power supply are produced by fossil fuel: coal, oil and solid biomass. Using of fossil fuel-based power led to environmental degradation and to reduce it an alternative power source is required. Amongst the alternate source, Hydropower is the most suitable source for power supply. Hydropower is one of the oldest renewable power sources where it generates power from the flow of water by converting its gravitational flow or potential energy of water source into electricity. Due to roughness and inaccessible of terrain of the study area, the use of conventional method becomes almost impossible. With the help of new innovative methodologies and techniques of Remote Sensing (RS) and Geographic Information System (GIS) this study has been carried out. In this study nine geo-spatial inputs are used to find the site suitable for small hydropower (SHP) project. The multi criteria decision making (MCDM) techniques is used to evaluate the input’s weights. After the weight is obtained for each input, it is overlaid according to its weight using overlay tool to obtained the site suitable for SHP project. The outcome of this study allows spotting identification of SHP potential zone
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