Estimating the Total Volume of Running Water Bodies Using Geographic Information System (GIS): A Case Study of Peshawar Basin (Pakistan)

Ahmad, Naveed; Khan, Sikandar; Ehsan, Muhsan; Rehman, Fayaz Ur; Al-Shuhail, Abdullatif A.

doi:10.3390/su14073754

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“…In Pakistan, floods, groundwater characteristics, and their socio-economic impacts on the country were commonly discussed by many authors [12,13]. In addition, modern techniques such as geographic information systems were applied to estimate and evaluate the total quantity of water bodies of the Peshawar basin [14]. Regarding Africa, particularly in Egypt, flood risk signatures between the El-Qussier and Marsa-Alam coastal region along the western coast of the Red Sea were investigated and preliminary evaluated [3].…”

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Remotely Sensed Data, Morpho-Metric Analysis, and Integrated Method Approach for Flood Risk Assessment: Case Study of Wadi Al-Arish Landscape, Sinai, Egypt

Khalifa

Bashir

Alsalman

et al. 2023

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Evaluating and predicting the occurrence and spatial remarks of climate and rainfall-related destructive hazards is a big challenge. Periodically, Sinai Peninsula is suffering from natural risks that enthuse researchers to provide the area more attention and scientific investigation. Extracted information from the morpho-metric indices aids in understanding the flood potentiality over various sizes of drainage catchments. In this work, the morpho-metric analysis has been used in order to model the relative signals of flood vulnerability of 16 catchments in northern Sinai. The geospatial technique has been applied to process the digital elevation models (DEMs) in order to produce different analysis maps. Basic geometries, in addition to several morpho-metric indices, were extracted and analyzed by investigating the digital elevation models. Three different effective methods were applied separately to build up three models of flood susceptibility behaviors. Finally, two flood susceptibility signals were defined: the integration method and accurate pixel level conditions models. The integrated method analysis indicates that the western half of the study landscape, including catchments (12, 13, and 14), presents high levels of flood susceptibility in addition to catchment 9 in the eastern half, whereas the other catchments were found to provide moderate levels. The integrated flood susceptibility final map overlaid one of the most effective topographic indices (topographic position index, TPI). The integrated results aided in understanding the link of the general catchments morphometry to the in situ topography for mapping the different flood susceptibility locations over the entire study landscape. Therefore, this can be used for investigating the surface-specific reduction strategy against the impacts of flood hazards in the proposed landscape.

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Remotely Sensed Data, Morpho-Metric Analysis, and Integrated Method Approach for Flood Risk Assessment: Case Study of Wadi Al-Arish Landscape, Sinai, Egypt

Khalifa

Bashir

Alsalman

et al. 2023

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“…GIS modeling plays an important role in analyzing the urban sustainability as it has the ability to process large volumes of spatial and attribute data. Many researchers have applied GIS techniques to calculate urban sustainability indicators and urban indices (Ahmad et al, 2022). This study proposes a method for decision-making by integrating multiple indicators in GIS to develop a decision support system for the urban sustainability in five large areas of Punjab, Pakistan.…”

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Valuation of socio‐economic indicators for progressing urban sustainability under distinctive rubrics

Ghalib

Mirza

Raza

et al. 2023

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The key objective of the study is to collect the factors which play an important role in the city's sustainability and implementation advantages for the development of cities in future. This article develops an urban sustainability assessment framework by giving GIS‐based decision support tools to guide cities toward sustainability. Multicriteria analysis was used as the decision support system and provides an analytical framework for assessing differences in the level of criteria and ranking decision options. It has the capability for assessment of urban sustainability because it brings sustainability criteria from three pillars of sustainability, environmental, social, and economic, which provide an integrated approach for assessment of urban sustainability. The GIS‐based multicriteria analysis serves as a sustainability support system that maps urban sustainability and the underlying environmental, social, and economic conditions. The results from the study show that the four cities ‐ Faisalabad, Lahore, Gujranwala, and Multan ‐ have better economic conditions while only Lahore and Faisalabad showed social progress and the remaining cities showed less suitability. For the environmental index, none of the cities attained high suitability. Lahore, Faisalabad, and Rawalpindi showed better conditions than Gujranwala and Multan. It is demonstrated that Punjab cities have made progress in economic condition and improvement in social condition but have poor environmental condition. In the study, the environmental dimension has indicators which have more impact on the urban sustainability. Environmental degradation is observed in all selected regions and not a single region showed suitability toward its environmental condition and due to this none of the cities gained suitable scores for urban sustainability. Consequently, urban sustainability is a multidimensional and dynamic process that needs regular evaluation and monitoring. Thus, this article contends that the tools help to highlight and emphasize those areas that need guidance in achieving urban sustainability.

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“…Among these, the hill torrents in Southern Punjab and Baluchistan have steep slopes, and barren mountainous regions are responsible for flash floods. Pakistan's constrained resources have contributed minimally to flash flood routing and management research [10].…”

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A Laboratory Study of the Role of Nature-Based Solutions in Improving Flash Flooding Resilience in Hilly Terrains

Rehman,

Ahmed,

Gilja

et al. 2023

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Nature-based solutions (NBSs) always provide optimal opportunities for researchers and policymakers to develop sustainable and long-term solutions for mitigating the impacts of flooding. Computing the hydrological process in hilly areas is complex compared to plain areas. This study used a laboratory-scaled hillslope model to study rainfall-runoff responses considering the natural hillslope conditions prevailing in hill torrents creating flash floods. The objective of this study was to estimate the impact of nature-based solutions on time-to-peak for flash flooding events on hilly terrains under different scenarios. Many factors decide the peak of runoff generation due to rainfall, like land use conditions, e.g., soil porosity, vegetation cover, rainfall intensity, and terrain slope. To reduce these complexities, the model was designed with thermopore sheets made of impermeable material. A hillslope model using NBS was designed to evaluate flood hydrograph attenuation to minimize the peak discharge (Qp) and increase time-to-peak (Tp) under varying rainfall, land cover, and drainage channel slope conditions. A rainfall simulator was used to analyze the formation of hydrographs for different conditions, e.g., from barren to vegetation under three different slopes (S0, S1, S2) and three rainfall intensities (P1, P2, P3). Vegetation conditions used were no vegetation, rigid vegetation, flexible vegetation, and the combination of both rigid and flexible vegetation. The purpose of using all these conditions was to determine their mitigation effects on flash flooding. This experimental analysis shows that the most suitable case to attenuate a flood hydrograph was the mixed vegetation condition, which can reduce the peak discharge by 27% to 39% under different channel slopes. The mixed vegetation condition showed an increase of 49% in time-to-peak (Tp) compared to the no vegetation condition. Additionally, under P1 rainfall and a bed slope of 0°, it reduced the peak discharge by up to 35% in the simulated flood and effectively minimized its potentially destructive impacts.

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Estimating the Total Volume of Running Water Bodies Using Geographic Information System (GIS): A Case Study of Peshawar Basin (Pakistan)

Cited by 19 publications

References 46 publications

Remotely Sensed Data, Morpho-Metric Analysis, and Integrated Method Approach for Flood Risk Assessment: Case Study of Wadi Al-Arish Landscape, Sinai, Egypt

Remotely Sensed Data, Morpho-Metric Analysis, and Integrated Method Approach for Flood Risk Assessment: Case Study of Wadi Al-Arish Landscape, Sinai, Egypt

Valuation of socio‐economic indicators for progressing urban sustainability under distinctive rubrics

A Laboratory Study of the Role of Nature-Based Solutions in Improving Flash Flooding Resilience in Hilly Terrains

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