Water Management

GIScience for the Sustainable Management of Water Resources
Editors: Gowhar Meraj
Shruti Kanga
Majid Farooq
Suraj Kumar Singh
Sudhanshu

GIScience for the Sustainable Management of Water Resources

Published. Available now.
Pub Date: December 2022
Hardback Price: see ordering info
Hard ISBN: 9781774910481
E-Book ISBN: 9781003284512
Pages: 440pp w index
Binding Type: Hardback / ebook
Notes: 17 color and 138 b/w illustrations

With water as one of the most critical resources of nature that is necessary for sustaining life for all living things, it has become very important for designing and using spatial informational techniques for understanding the root causes behind the degradation of our water resources. This volume discusses in detail a selection of geospatial approaches, tools, and techniques.

The uses of geographical information science to measure and manage water resources are diverse. Satellite remote sensing provides essential data for mapping water resources, hydrology flux measurement, monitoring drought, and flood inundation. With an abundance of informative case studies, the chapters discuss the use of the satellite remote sensing and GIS-based systems for managing urban storm water; for flood and soil erosion management; for mapping groundwater zones; for crop production, including measuring soil moisture and aridity; for gauging the impact of climate change; for evaluating glacier change dynamics; for assessing the impact of urban growth on water resources; for measuring the degradation of rivers; and more.

This peer-reviewed volume imparts important information on spatial information techniques that are used for understanding the root causes behind the degradation of our water resources. GIScience for the Sustainable Management of Water Resources will be a valuable resource for urban planners, environmentalists, policymakers, ecologists, researchers, academicians, students, and professionals in the fields of remote sensing, civil engineering, social science, computer science, and information technology.

CONTENTS:

Preface

PART I: INTEGRATING TOOLS OF GISCIENCE FOR PLANNING SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AT LANDSCAPE LEVEL
1. Managing Urban Stormwater for Sustainable Urban Development: A Geospatial Approach
Mona Khakhar, Smit Patel, and Anjana Vyas

2. Remote Sensing and GIS-Based Water Resource Monitoring for Sustainable Crop Intensification and Diversification
S. Panneerselvam, S. Pazhanivelan, K. P. Ragunath, 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
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
Subhanil Guha and Himanshu Govil

5. Use of GIScience for Understanding Flood and Gully Erosion at Landscape Level
Ugwuegbu, Ikechukwu Emmanuel, and Ifeka, Adolphus

6. Mapping Groundwater Potential Zones (GWPZ) Using Satellite Remote Sensing and GIS
Uzair Ahmed, Abid Sarwar, Fazli Amin Khalil, Shazia Gulzar, Nadia Qayum, and Rimsha Qureshi

7. Evaluating the Watershed Geomorphometry for Assessing Hydrological Response Using GIScience
Guhan Velusamy, Geethalakshmi Vellingiri, Mugilan Raman, Vinothkanna Shanmugam, Senthilraja Kandasamy, Dhanya Praveen, and Kumarasen Palaniappan

8. Web-Based Geospatial Approach for Identification of Groundwater Depletion: A Tool for Sustainable Water Resource Management
Vinay Gangare, Sudarshan Singh Parmar, and Vineesha Singh

9. Assessing the Risk of Watersheds to Soil Erosion Using GIScience
Umair Ali, Ummar Ahad, Syed Ahmad Ali, Mukeem Ahmad, Abaas Ahmad Mir, and Tanzeel Khatoon

10. Sentinel-2 Red-Edge Band as Virus Indicators for Sustainable Wetland Management, Assessed During the Covid-19 Lockdown
Rajashree Naik and Laxmi Kant Sharma

PART II: GISCIENCE FOR EVUALUATING THE CHANGE DYNAMICS OF EARTH SYSTEM PROCESSES
11. Assessing Crop Production Dynamics Using Geospatial Patterns of Soil Moisture, Aridity, and Changing Climate
P. Dhanya and V. Geethalakshmi

12. Impact Assessment of Urban Growth on Landscape Dynamics for Sustainable Management Using Geospatial Approach
Mayank Pandey, Alka Mishra, and S. L. Swami

13. Assessing the Impact of Coastal Morpho-Dynamics on Water Chemistry Using an Integrated GIScience and Modelling Approaches
G. Sreenivasulu, N. Jayaraju, B. Upendra, and B. Lakshmanna

14. Soil Erosion Estimation Using Revised Universal Soil Loss Equation (RUSLE) Model and GIS
Pawan Thapa

15. Analyzing the Degradation of Rivers Using GIScience
Sher Singh Baghel and Ekta Baranwal

16. Evaluating Glacier Change Dynamics Using GIScience
Avinash Kandekar, Swapnil Vyas, Vikrant Bhade, and Binay Kumar

PART III: A REVIEW OF THE ROLE OF GISCIENCE FOR ASSESSING EARTH SYSTEM PROCESSES
17. Application of GIScience for Soil and Water Conservation: A Review
Abiy Gebremichael

18. Environmental Quality Monitoring Using Environmental Quality Indices (EQI), Geographic Information System (GIS), and Remote Sensing: A Review
Faheem Ahamad, Rakesh Bhutiani, and Mukesh Ruhela

19. Groundwater Contamination Control for Sustainable Water Resource Management: A Short Review
S. Karthigayini and S. Sahana

20. Assessing the Impact of Urbanization on Deepor Beel: A Review
Priyanka Sengupta and Sneha Rani Deb

21. Atmospheric Boundary Layer and Geographic Information System (GIS): A Review
C. Navin Kumar, N. Thavaprakaash, S. Panneerselvam, and S. Arul Prasad

Index


About the Authors / Editors:
Editors: Gowhar Meraj
Young Scientist Fellow, Department of Ecology, Environment and Remote Sensing, Government of Jammu and Kashmir, India

Gowhar Meraj, MPhil, MSc, is working as a Young Scientist Fellow under the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India’s Scheme for Young Scientist and Technologists (SYST) at the Department of Ecology, Environment and Remote Sensing, Government of Jammu and Kashmir, India. He has also worked as a consultant with World Bank Group, New Delhi, for its South Asia Water Initiative Program. He has more than ten years of research and teaching experience and is on the editorial and reviewer panels of several research journals.

Shruti Kanga
Associate Professor and Coordinator, Centre for Climate Change and Water Research, Suresh Gyan Vihar University, Jaipur, India

Shruti Kanga, PhD, is Associate Professor and Coordinator at the Centre for Climate Change and Water Research, Suresh Gyan Vihar University, Jaipur, India. She has authored more than 60 publications in various peer-reviewed national and international journals with more than 400 citations. She is presently on the reviewer panel for several research journals and supervises several PhD students on their dissertations.

Majid Farooq
Scientist-D, Department of Ecology, Environment and Remote Sensing, Government of Jammu and Kashmir, India

Majid Farooq, MTech, MSc, is working as Scientist-D at the Department of Ecology, Environment 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, and watershed management.

Suraj Kumar Singh
Associate Professor and Coordinator, Centre for Sustainable Development, Suresh Gyan Vihar University, Jaipur, India

Suraj Kumar Singh, PhD, is Associate Professor and Coordinator at the Centre for Sustainable Development, Suresh Gyan Vihar University, Jaipur, India. He has published various research papers in national and international journals and participated in and organized international conferences, workshops, symposiums, and webinars. He is presently on the reviewer panel for several research journals and supervises several PhD students on their dissertations.

Sudhanshu
Researcher; Chief Mentor, Suresh Gyan Vihar University, Jaipur, India

Sudhanshu, PhD, is a veteran researcher in the field of applied geology and geosciences. He has more than 30 years of research and academic experience and is currently the chief mentor of Suresh Gyan Vihar University, Jaipur, India. He is on the reviewer panel for several research journals and supervises several PhD students on their dissertations.




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