Delineation of Ground Water Prospect Zone in hard rock terrine part of Purulia District of West Bengal-India using Remote Sensing & GIS Approach

Authors

  • Surajit Bera  Department of NREM, CSIR-Central Institute of Mining & Fuel Research, Barwa Road, Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India

Keywords:

Remote Sensing & GIS, SOI, GSI, NBSS, LISS-III, DEM, MIF, Hydro-Geomorphology, Drainage Density, Lineament Density, Weighted Overlay, Ground Water Prospects.

Abstract

In the field of ground water resource uses of Remote Sensing and Geographic Information System (GIS) assume a crucial part in ground water investigation. Using Remote Sensing data (satellite image) and the Geographic Information System we can undoubtedly get to, observing, preserving and economically dealing with the ground water resource. In this work utilizing Remote Sensing and GIS system, different ground water prospect zones depicted of ground water accessibility in Purulia district. Different thematic layers viz. Topography, soil, hydro geomorphology, land use, slope, drainage density, lineament density and water level depth were prepared utilizing Survey of India (SOI) Toposheets, satellite image (IRS-1C, LISS-III and Cartosat-1, DEM), National Bureau of Soil Survey (NBSS), and Geological Survey of India (GSI) maps in GIS environment. The multi influence factor (MIF) technique used to process a weighted score of each raster class. Additionally, each weighted thematic layer statistically compute to get the ground water prospect zones utilizing the weighted overlay analysis tool in Arc GIS software. Five classes (Restricted, Not Suitable, Suitable, Moderate and Highly Suitable) of ground water prospect zones found in the study area, the restricted zone covers 1412.35 sq km around 22.57 %, not suitable zone covers 151.75 sq km around 2.42 %, suitable zone covers 1333.97 sq km around 21.31 %, moderate zone covers 2912.47 sq km around 46.53 and high suitable zone covers 448.47 sq km around 7.17 % of the total study area. The result delineate the ground water prospect zones in the study area and observed to be useful in better planning, management and sustainable development of ground water resource in future.

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Surajit Bera, " Delineation of Ground Water Prospect Zone in hard rock terrine part of Purulia District of West Bengal-India using Remote Sensing & GIS Approach, IInternational Journal of Scientific Research in Computer Science, Engineering and Information Technology(IJSRCSEIT), ISSN : 2456-3307, Volume 3, Issue 1, pp.1361-1370, January-February-2018.