Geomorphology and land use pattern of visakhapatnam urban - industrial area

Abstract

Geomorphology and land use pattern of Visakhapatnam urban -industrial area have been studied using IRS IB and SPOT data. The geomorphie units under structural landforms, fluvial landforms and coastal landforms were identified and appropriate field confirmations were made. The geomorphic units such as inselbergs/residual hills, rolling plains, colluvial plains, fractures, piedmont fans, pediments were identified under structural landforms. The units wind gap, paleo channels, gully land, alluvial plain and natural levee were identified under fluvial landforms. The coastal landforms include sea cave, sea stack, red sediments, beach sands and marshy area. Study of the land use pattern reveals the land use under various categories of residential, planned and un planned, agricultural land, waste land and others. The data will have high relevance and usefulness for urban, industrial and ground water resource evaluations in the context of rapid urbanization and industrialization.

Use of geo-spatial information and technologies for analyzing morphological changes in the Greater Visakhapatnam coastal region, east coast of India

“…26, No. 5, August 2011, 391-411 ISSN (Raghavswamy and Vaidyanadhan 1980, Chen and Rau 1998, Jagannadha Rao et al 2003, Murali et al 2006, Yagoub and Giridhar Reddy 2006. Major rivers derive sediment which also form deltas in the coastal lands.…”

Identification of groundwater prospective zones using irs-id liss iii and pump test methods

“…Similar attempts have been made in the generation of different thematic maps for the delineation of groundwater potential zones in different parts of the country (Obi Reddy et al, 1994;Krishna Moorthy and Srinivas, 1995;Rao et al, 1996;Reddy et al, 1996). Satellite remote sensing has been proved beneficial in hydrogeomorphological mapping (Vaidyanathan, 1964;Prithviraj, 1980;Das et al, 1997; Kumar and Tomar, 1998;Tomas et al, 1999;Pratap et al, 2000;Subba Rao et al, 2001, Sankar, 2002Jagannadha Rao et al, 2003).…”