GIS and Remote Sensing-Based Multi-Criteria Analysis for Delineation of Groundwater Potential Zones: A Case Study for Industrial Zones in Bangladesh

Abstract

Groundwater is a crucial natural resource that varies in quality and quantity across Bangladesh. Increased population and urbanization place enormous demands on groundwater supplies, reducing both their quality and quantity. This research aimed to delineate the groundwater potential zone in the Gazipur district, Bangladesh, by integrating eleven thematic layers. Data and information were gathered from Landsat 8, the digital elevation model, the google earth engine, and several ancillary sources. A multi-criterion decision-making (MCDM) based analytical hierarchy process (AHP) was used in a GIS platform to estimate the groundwater potential index. The potential index values were finally classified into five sub-groups: very low, low, moderate, high, and very high to generate a groundwater water potential zone (GWPZ) map. The results show that groundwater potential in about 0.002% (0.026 km2) of the area is very low, 3.83% (63.18 km2) of the area is low, 56.2% (927.05 km2) of the area is medium, 39.25% (647.46 km2) of the area is high, and the rest 0.72% (11.82 km2) of the area is very high. The validation of GWPZ maps based on the groundwater level data at 20 observation wells showed an overall accuracy of 80%. In addition, the ROC curve showed 84% accuracy of GWPZ maps when validated with water inventory points across the study region. Overall, this study presents an easy and practical approach for identifying groundwater potential zones, which may help improve planning and sustainable groundwater resource management.

Assessment of Groundwater Potential Zones Utilizing Geographic Information System-Based Analytical Hierarchy Process, Vlse Kriterijumska Optimizacija Kompromisno Resenje, and Technique for Order Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution Methods: A Case Study in Mersin, Türkiye

“…Uncontrolled and frequent groundwater use can cause adverse incidents, particularly in drylands like Mersin, which has a drought risk [112]. Water resources should be utilized optimistically as part of sustainable groundwater management [113,114].…”

Groundwater Potential Assessment in the Upper Oum Er-Rbia Basin, Northern Morocco

“…The latest 32-year series (1990-2022) was used to elaborate an average annual precipitation map. Using ArcGIS functions, precipitation values were extracted from each grid cell center and then interpolated using the IDW method [Rahman et al, 2022] to obtain the average annual precipitation map.…”

“…The rainfall has a direct effect on the groundwater potential and recharge in a particular area [Chaudhry et al, 2021;Rahman et al, 2022]. This, in turn, affects the hydrogeological conditions of that area [Masroor et al, 2023].…”

Tracing the Land Use Changes in Ishurdi and Bheramara Upazila, Bangladesh: Application of Google Earth Engine

“…According to previous work, many studies of LULC changes in Bangladesh have been carried out using GEE (Alam & Ahamed, 2022;Prince et al, 2022;Anjum et al, 2021;Rahman et al, 2022;Ullah & Uddin, 2021;Yu et al, 2018). There are also few studies of LULC prediction in Bangladesh using Markov-CA model with TerrSet software tools (Rahman et al, 2017;Morshed et al, 2022;Hoque et al, 2020).…”

“…In Bangladesh, few research (Alam & Ahamed, 2022;Prince et al, 2022;Anjum et al, 2021;Rahman et al, 2022;Ullah & Uddin, 2021;Yu et al, 2018) has been conducted to determine LULC changes using GEE and LULC future prediction using the TerrSet software tool both. This study may be the first time that a historical analysis of LULC changes from 1990 to 2021 (using GEE) and a prediction of LULC changes in 2041 (using Terrset software and the Marcov-CA model) have been combined in the Ishurdi and Bheramera Upazila, Bangladesh.…”