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Geoinformatics for Runoff Diversion Planning from the Western Slope of Western Ghat to Godavari Basin in Maharashtra, India

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Author Affiliations

  • 1Department of Geography, Shivaji University, Kolhapur 416004, India and Department of Geography, S.N. Arts, D.J.M. Commerce & B.N.S. Science College, Sangamner 422605, India
  • 22Department of Geography, S.N. Arts, D.J.M. Commerce & B.N.S. Science College, Sangamner 422605, India

Int. Res. J. Earth Sci., Volume 4, Issue (6), Pages 41-47, June,25 (2016)

Abstract

Spatio-temporal variations in water availability are foremost attribute of the majority of river basins, especially in semi-arid environment. Several tasks and schemes have been implemented to overcome the gap between water supply and demand. Unfortunately, most of schemes and tasks are failed due to reduced water retention capacity of the same basins as a result of climate change. Interlinking of river (ILR), inter-basin water diversion (IBWD), gravity base runoff diversion (ROD) etc. are mega concern which are somewhat completed and some are under tribulations. These mega harvesting implementation is challengeable and still uncertain due to absence of realistic data for sustainable planning. In India, immense physical, hydrological, land use and land cover (LULC) and socio-economic diversity prevails where ILR, IBWD and ROD implementation is rather tricky due to environmental, social and technical sound concern. In the Western Ghats, potential water diversion or ROD sites are located in rigid geology, undulating topography, dense vegetation, and allied human ecology which is one of ecological sensitive zone of India. Thus, the real data collection by routing surveying for this region is inflexible, time consuming and costly. In such situation, use of high resolution aerial data, as a part of remote sensing (RS) and advance tools and techniques of Geoinformatics is innovative for ROD planning. It is the technical and scientific discipline which uses spatial and non-spatial dataset to address the problem with real time monitoring, digital mapping, multi-data analysis and huge data management. This attempt is haulage the discussion about capabilities of Geoinformatics for ROD planning from western slope of the Western Ghat to Godavari Basin.

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