Table Of ContentGIScience for the Sustainable
Management of Water Resources
GIScience for the Sustainable
Management of Water Resources
Edited by
Gowhar Meraj
Shruti Kanga
Majid Farooq
Suraj Kumar Singh
Sudhanshu
First edition published 2023
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Title: GIScience for the sustainable management of water resources / edited by Gowhar Meraj [and four others].
Names: Meraj, Gowhar, editor.
Description: First edition. | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: Canadiana (print) 20220285772 | Canadiana (ebook) 20220285845 | ISBN 9781774910481 (hardcover) |
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Subjects: LCSH: Water-supply—Management—Geographic information systems.
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About the Editors
Gowhar Meraj (lead and corresponding editor)
Dr. Gowhar Meraj is currently working as a Young Scientist Fellow under the
Department of Science and Technology, Government of India’s Scheme for
Young Scientists and Technologists (SYST) at the Department of Ecology,
Environment and Remote sensing, Government of Jammu and Kashmir, India.
Previously, he has worked as a Programme Officer on the ENVIS Scheme of
the Ministry of Environment, Forests, and Climate Change (MoEF&CC) for
five years. He has also worked as a consultant with World Bank Group, New
Delhi, on its South Asia Water Initiative Program. He has more than 10 years
of experience in research and teaching in various fields related to satellite
remote sensing and geographic information science (GIS), such as hazard
vulnerability assessments, hydrological modeling, flood assessment, water
shed management, natural resource management, and ecosystem services
and modeling. He has more than 50 publications in various international
and national journals. He is also serving as academic editor in PeerJ-Life
and Environment Journal and International Journal of Ecology, Hindawi. He
is on reviewer boards of various SCI journals such as Information Fusion,
Natural Hazards, Arabian Journal of Geosciences, Geocarto International,
etc. He earned MSc, MPhil, and PhD degrees in Environmental Sciences with
a special research focus on spatial information sciences. He has also holds a
postgraduate diploma in Remote Sensing and GIS.
Google scholar profile: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=tLe6B
eEAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao
Shruti Kanga
Dr. Shruti Kanga is currently working as Associate Professor and Coordinator
at the Centre for Climate Change and Water Resources, Suresh Gyan Vihar
University, Jaipur, India. She has previously worked as Assistant Professor in
the Centre for Land Resource Management, Central University of Jharkhand
(CUJ), Ranchi. She also served as a research associate in the Ministry of
Environment, Forest, and Climate Change (MoEF) and GoI-funded project
vi About the Editors
on forest fires and has teaching experience at different universities, including
Central University of HNB Garhwal and the University of Jammu. She has
attended and organized around 35 national and international conferences. She
was also a course coordinator of several modules of EDUSAT-based distance
learning program organized by the Indian Institute of Remote Sensing (IIRS),
Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), Government of India. She has
12 years of teaching and research experience. She did her PhD in Technology
(Geoinformatics) at the Department of Remote Sensing, Birla Institute of
Technology, Ranchi, India. She has worked in the area of forest fires risk
modeling and management, tourism, resource management, etc.
Google scholar profile: https://scholar.google.co.in/citations?user=RSkm
ve8AAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao
Majid Farooq
Dr. Majid Farooq is currently Scientist-D at the Department of Ecology, Envi
ronment and Remote Sensing, Government of Jammu and Kashmir, India. He
has more than 15 years of experience in research, teaching, and consultancy
related to remote sensing and GIS, such as climate change vulnerability
assessments, flood modeling, ecosystem assessment, watershed management,
natural resource management, and ecosystem services and modeling. He has
more than 35 publications in various international and national journals. In
addition, he has also served as a reviewer for various SCI journals, such as
Environmental Monitoring and Assessment (Springer), International Journal
of Remote Sensing (Taylor and Francis), etc. He has done his MTech in remote
sensing and GIS from SRM University, Chennai, India.
Google Scholar profile: https://scholar.google.co.in/citations?user=6X2n
7iMAAAAJ&hl=en
Suraj Kumar Singh
Dr. Suraj Kumar Singh is currently working as Associate Professor and
Coordinator at the Centre for Sustainable Development, Suresh Gyan Vihar
University, Jaipur, India. Previously, he worked as an Assistant Professor in
the Centre for Land Resource Management, Central University of Jharkhand
About the Editors vii
(CUJ), Ranchi. He has also served as research associate at the National
Remote Sensing Centre (NRSC) and at the Indian Space Research Organiza
tion (ISRO) and on GoI-sponsored projects, such as the National Wasteland
Mapping and National Urban Information System for the northern parts
of India. He has worked in the area of waterlogging and flood hazards,
geospatial applications in water resources, disaster management, hydrogeo
morphology, urban planning, and wasteland mapping. He was also a course
coordinator of different modules of the EDUSAT-based distance learning
program organized by the Indian Institute of Remote Sensing (IIRS), Indian
Space Research Organization (ISRO), Government of India. He has 12 years
of teaching and research experience. He had the responsibility of an NSS
program officer at the Central University of Jharkhand and coordinator of
Centre for Sustainable development, Suresh Gyan Vihar University, Jaipur,
India. He earned his PhD degree in Technology (Geoinformatics) at the
Department of Remote Sensing, Birla Institute of Technology, Ranchi, India.
Google Scholar profile: https://scholar.google.co.in/citations?user=wXl
G45AAAAAJ&hl=en
Sudhanshu
Dr. Sudhanshu is the chief mentor at the Suresh Gyan Vihar University,
Jaipur, Rajasthan, India. He is an expert geologist with over 30 years of
experience in research and teaching.
Contents
Contributors ...........................................................................................................xiii
Editorial Advisory Board ......................................................................................xvii
Abbreviations ......................................................................................................... xix
Introduction ..........................................................................................................xxiii
Preface .................................................................................................................. xxv
PART I: Integrating tools of GIScience for Planning Sustainable
Development at Landscape Level ..................................................................1
1. Managing Urban Stormwater for Sustainable Urban Development:
A Geospatial Approach ...................................................................................3
Mona Khakhar, Smit Patel, and Anjana Vyas
2. Remote Sensing and GIS-Based Water Resource Monitoring for
Sustainable Crop Intensification and Diversification ................................23
S. Panneerselvam, S. Pazhanivelan, K. P. Ragunath,
P. Kumaresan, and N. Balakrishnan
3. Using Analytical Hierarchical Process (AHP)-Based Geospatial
Approach for Identification of Suitable Sites for Artificial Recharge
Structures for Sustainable Water Resource Management ........................41
M. Rajasekhar, G. Sudarsana Raju, and Y. Sreenivasulu
4. Prioritization of Watersheds for Sustainable Water Resource
Management at Basin Level Using Remote Sensing and
Geographic Information System .................................................................61
Subhanil Guha and Himanshu Govil
5. Use of GI Science for Understanding the Flood and
Gully Erosion at Landscape Level ...............................................................73
Ugwuegbu Ikechukwu Emmanuel and Ifeka Adolphus
6. Mapping Groundwater Potential Zones Using Satellite
Remote Sensing and GIS ............................................................................109
Uzair Ahmed, Abid Sarwar, Fazli Amin Khalil, Shazia Gulzar,
Nadia Qayum, and Rimsha Qureshi
