Change of river channel and bank erosion of the burhi dihing river (assam), assessed using remote sensing data and gis

Sarma, J. N.; Borah, Debashree; Goswami, Uttam

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“…After registration, all the scenes were joined to demarcate the basin of the Kaziranga National Park using Erdas Imagine mosaic tool. The characteristics of the river were analyzed in terms of their geomorphology and pattern of channel changes in time and over space using twelve period data sets SoI topographic maps of 1912-1916and 1972and IRS LISS III-1D, P6 (1998, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007and 2008. The rates of erosion and fill were calculated for the part of Brahmaputra River which falls within the park area…”

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“…The morphological and erosional aspects of the Brahmaputra river has been studied by many workers such as Coleman (1969), Goswami (1985), Bristow (1987), Klaassen andMasselink (1992), Thorn, et al (1993) and Kotoky and Sarma (2001) to mention a few. Studies on bank erosion of the river Brahmaputra and many of its tributaries using topographic maps and satellite data have been done by many workers (Sarma and Basumallick, 1984;Kotoky et al, 2005;Sarma, 2002;Sarma andPhukan, 2004, 2006;Sarma et al, 2007Sarma et al, , 2011. Important studies on neotectonics of the eastern part of Assam include the works of Roy (1975), Mazumder et al (2001, Luirei and Bhakuni (2008), and Sarma and Acharjee (2012).…”

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“…As mentioned earlier the Kaziranga National Park is undergoing heavy loss of land, in particular, on east-north eastern and western sides. Erosion and fill-ups of Brahmaputra River from 1912-1916to 1972, 1972to 1998, 1998to 1999, 1999to 2000, 2000to 2002, 2002to 2004, 2004to 2006, 2006to 2007and 2007to 2008 1912-1916, 1972, 1998 and 2008 are shown in Fig. 3 to give an idea of bankline migration.…”

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A GIS based study on bank erosion by the river Brahmaputra around Kaziranga National Park, Assam, India

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Acharjee

2012

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The Kaziranga National Park is a forest-edged riverine grassland inhabited by the world's largest population of one-horned rhinoceroses, as well as a wide diversity of animals. The park is situated on the southern bank of the Brahmaputra River at the foot of the Mikir Hills. National Highway 37 forms the southern boundary and the northern boundary is the river Brahmaputra and covers an area of about 430 km2. The Brahmaputra River flows by Kaziranga National Park in a braided course for about 53 km. Sequential changes in the position of banklines of the river due to consistent bank erosion have been studied from Survey of India topographic maps of 1912–1916 and 1972, satellite IRS LISS III images from 1998 to 2008 using GIS. Study of bank line shift due to the bank erosion around Kaziranga has been carried out for the periods 1912–1916 to 1972, 1972 to 1998 and 1998 to 2008. The amounts of the bank area lost due to erosion and gained due to sediment deposition are estimated separately. The total area eroded during 1912–1916 to 1972 was more (84.87 km2) as compared to accretion due to sediment deposition (24.49 km2), the total area eroded was also more in 1972–1998 (44.769 km2) as compared to accretion (29.47 km2) and the total area eroded was again more in 1998–2008 (20.41 km2) as compared to accretion (7.89 km2). The rates of erosion during 1912–1916 to 1970, 1970 to 1998, and 1998 to 2008 were 1.46, 1.59 and 1.021 km2 per year, respectively. During the entire period (1912–1916 to 2008) of study the erosion on the whole was 150.04 km2 and overall accretion was 61.86 km2 resulting in a loss of 88.188 km2 area of the park. The maximum amounts of shift of the bankline during 1912–1916 to 1970, 1970 to 1998, and 1998 to 2008 were 4.58 km, 3.36 km, and 1.92 km, respectively, which amount to the rates of shift as 0.078, 0.12 and 0.096 km per year, respectively. A lineament and a few faults have controlled the trend of the course of the Brahmaputra around Kaziranga area. The main cause of erosion of the Brahmaputra is the loose non-cohesive sediments of the bank throughout the park. The braided channel of the river strikes the bank directly and undermines the silty bank causing overhanging blocks to be carried away easily by the river current. In future deposition is likely to be more in upstream or eastern part of Kaziranga and erosion in middle part of Kaziranga national park area due to the river Brahmaputra. Antierosion measures have been adopted only in a few places to check bank erosion at Kaziranga

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“…However, detailed quantification may be difficult to perform if we compare their content to recent cartographic or aerial datasets due to the considerable differences among scales (Li et al, 2007). The majority of studies worldwide focusing on planform channel changes are composed on the basis of military and later on civil aerial imagery from the early 1940's (Michalková et al, 2010;Nicoll and Hickin 2010;Yousefi et al, 2017;Hajdukiewicz and Wyżga 2019), topographic maps of various dates (Sarma et al, 2007;Yao et al, 2013) or even satellite imagery (Wang et al, 2014(Wang et al, , 2016Yousefi et al, 2016). Classic photogrammetric methods were used as a quick method for generating maps from aerial and terrestrial photographs (Pyle et al, 1997;Hughes et al, 2006).…”

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Detailed assessment of spatial and temporal variations in river channel changes and meander evolution as a preliminary work for effective floodplain management. The example of Sajó River, Hungary

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Rodrigo‐Comino

Surian

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“…Kotoky [14] studied selected reach of Brahamputra (from Panidihing Reserve Forest to Holoukonda Bil of the Brahmaputra River) with two sets of Survey of India toposheets (1914 and 1975) and a set of IRS satellite images (1998, IRS-1B, LISS II B/W geocoded data. Sarma [15] studied the nature of bank line migration of Burhi Dihing River (southern tributary of Brahmaputra River) course during a period of time from 1934 to 2004. Das and Saraf [16] made a study in respect to a trend in river course changes of Brahmaputra River and influence of various surrounding geotectonic features for varying period between 1970-2002 for different sections of the river using Landsat MSS, TM and ETM images.…”

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RS-GIS Based Assessment of River Dynamics of Brahmaputra River in India

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Garg²,

Sharma³

2012

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The Brahmaputra River is one of the largest alluvial rivers in the world characterized by frequent bank erosion leading to channel pattern changes and shifting of bank line. This study is aimed at quantifying the actual bank erosion/deposi- tion along the Brahmaputra River within India for a period of eighteen years (1990-2008). The entire course of Brah- maputra River in Assam from upstream of Dibrugarh up to the town Dhubri near Bangladesh border for a stretch of around 620 kms has been studied using an integrated approach of Remote Sensing and Geographical Information Sys- tem (GIS). The channel configuration of the Brahmaputra River has been mapped for the years 1990 and 2008 using IRS 1A LISS-I, and IRS-P6 LISS-III satellite images respectively. The analysis of satellite data has provided not only the information on the channel configuration of the river system on repetitive basis but also has brought out several sig- nificant facts about the changes in river morphology, stable and unstable reaches of the river banks and changes in the main channel. The results provide latest and reliable information on the dynamic fluvio-geomorphology of the Brah- maputra River for designing and implementation of drainage development programmes and erosion control schemes in the north eastern region of the country

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Change of river channel and bank erosion of the burhi dihing river (assam), assessed using remote sensing data and gis

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A GIS based study on bank erosion by the river Brahmaputra around Kaziranga National Park, Assam, India

A GIS based study on bank erosion by the river Brahmaputra around Kaziranga National Park, Assam, India

Detailed assessment of spatial and temporal variations in river channel changes and meander evolution as a preliminary work for effective floodplain management. The example of Sajó River, Hungary

RS-GIS Based Assessment of River Dynamics of Brahmaputra River in India

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