Site suitability analysis for soil and water conservation structures

Durbude, Dilip G.; Venkatesh, B.

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“…In semi-arid and arid drylands, soil and water conservation practices are followed on a watershed basis, as the watersheds are referred to as basic hydrological units. Integrated management of land and water resources in a watershed requires suitable plans after evaluating the resource potential of the watershed (Singh et al 1996, Durbude andVenkatesh 2004). The land units in the watershed, demarcated through its properties, position and usage, have their own potentials and limitations.…”

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Assessment of land suitability potentials for agriculture using a remote sensing and GIS based approach

Bandyopadhyay

Jaiswal

Hegde

et al. 2009

International Journal of Remote Sensing

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Land suitability potential evaluation is an important step to detect the environmental limit in sustainable land use planning. It deals with the assessment of land performances for the specific use that is crop production. In the present study, a land suitability evaluation in a watershed has been carried out through close examination of the indicators of land suitability. The parameters taken into consideration were soil texture, organic matter content, soil depth, slope and land use/land cover. Satellite images of the study area have been classified for land use/ land cover map preparation, while toposheet and ancillary data have been used for slope maps and soil properties determination. An integrated land suitability potential (LSP) index was computed considering the contribution of various parameters of land suitability. The watershed was categorized as good, fair, moderate, average, poor and not suitable by adopting the logical criteria. These categories were arrived at by integrating the various layers with corresponding weights in a geographical information system (GIS). The study demonstrates that a watershed can be categorized into spatially distributed agriculture potential zones based on the soil properties, terrain characteristics and analysing present land use.

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Assessment of land suitability potentials for agriculture using a remote sensing and GIS based approach

Bandyopadhyay

Jaiswal

Hegde

et al. 2009

International Journal of Remote Sensing

205

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“…Behera and Mohapatra (1996) carried out the studies on the application of RS technique for suggesting suitable sites for soil and water conservation measures in various watersheds in India. Durbude and Venkatesh (2004) proposed suitable sites for soil and water conservation structures in Koppal district of Karnataka State, India using an integrated approach of RS and GIS. Saraf and Choudhury (1998) envisaged GIS and RS technologies in suitability analysis for artificial recharge sites in the hard rock terrain.…”

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Remote sensing and GIS for identification of suitable sites for soil and water conservation structures

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Formulation of a proper watershed management plan requires reliable and up-to-date information about various factors such as morphologic (size and shape of the watershed, drainage parameters, topography), soil and their characteristics, land use, and land cover, etc. that affect the behavior of a watershed. Satellite based remote sensing technology and GIS meets both the requirements of reliability and speed and are ideal tools for generating spatial information needs. In this study, a locale-specific watershed development plan was generated for the case study area of a small agricultural watershed of Karso, Hazaribagh, India using remote sensing and GIS techniques. Indian Remote Sensing Satellite (IRS-1C), Linear Imaging Self Scanner (LISS-III) satellite data along with other datasets, e.g. existing maps and field observation data have been utilized for generating a land use/land cover map and to extract information on morphological parameters (bifurcation ratio, elongation ratio, drainage density, ruggedness number, relief ratio, and circulatory ratio) and other thematic maps which are an essential prerequisites for watershed development. Morphological parameters of subwatersheds were derived to understand its usefulness for surface water development. The conceptual framework for plan and site suitability mapping for soil and water conservation structures is developed and subsequently, these parameters were integrated with other thematic information viz., land use/cover, drainage, slope, and soil in the GIS environment to arrive at a decision regarding a suitable site for having soil and water conservation structures (nala bund, check dam, and percolation tank) in its place adopting a holistic approach.

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“…Al-Daghastani, 2010;Forzieri et al, 2008;Prinz et al, 1998), 2) hydrological modelling (HM) with GIS/RS (e.g. De Winnaar et al, 2007;Durbude and Venkatesh, 2004;Gupta et al, 1997), 3) multi-criteria analysis (MCA) integrated with HM and GIS/RS (e.g. Elewa et al, 2012;Sekar and Randhir, 2007;Weerasinghe et al, 2011), and 4) MCA integrated with a GIS (e.g.…”

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“…These land-use classes are rarely used for agriculture, and RWH in these areas are small and should be close to cultivated areas. The IMSD guidelines thus include suitable sites far from where the water is needed (Durbude and Venkatesh, 2004;Kadam et al, 2012;Kumar et al, 2008). Moreover, the IMSD guidelines did not define socioeconomic criteria, which is a large limitation compared to the other two sets of guidelines.…”

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“…The water-balance equation represents the relative values of inflow, outflow and change in water storage for an area or water body. Durbude and Venkatesh (2004) applied the Thornthwaite and Mather (TM) models with the help of RS and a GIS to identify potential runoff zones and sites suitable for RWH in the Hire watershed in the state of Karnatake in India such as contours terrace, farm ponds, gully plugs and percolation tanks. The TM model is one of the simplest and most widely used methods for calculating the water balance (Durbude and Venkatesh, 2004).…”

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