Water Balance Approach for Rainwater Harvesting using Remote Sensing and GIS Techniques, Jammu Himalaya, India

Jasrotia, Avtar Singh; Majhi, Abinash; Singh, Sunil

doi:10.1007/s11269-009-9422-5

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“…Results showed that climate warming can dramatically impact runoff and groundwater recharge. Jasrotia et al (2009) evaluated water balance for rain water harvesting in India. In this study Thornthwaite and Mather (TM) models used with the help of remote sensing and GIS to find out the moisture deficit and moisture surplus for an entire watershed, and the methodology was evaluated very useful.…”

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Evaluation of Water Balance in a Mountainous Upland Catchment Using SEBAL Approach

Dastorani

Poormohammadi

2012

Water Resour Manage

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Scarcity of water is now the biggest threat in many parts of the world, specially in arid and semi arid regions. Establishing balance between water resources and the demands in a catchment scale basis could be one of the most important strategies to overcome this problem. In this regard, determination and analysis of water balance components (inputs and outputs) would be necessary. This study has focused on estimation of water balance components in arid-mountainous catchment of Manshad in Yazd province of Iran, during the year 2006-2007 using remote sensing and GIS techniques. To estimate actual evapotranspiration (ET a ) of the catchment, time series of MODIS images were obtained and used via Surface Energy Balance Algorithm for Land (SEBAL) approach. Measured precipitation (P) and runoff (R) data of the catchment were also used to calculate water balance equation components. Results indicated that a large volume of catchment water (about 70%) is wasted through evapotranspiration, while the rainfall is not enough to compensate this volume of water during the year. It seems that the negative (descending) trend has become dominant to the water budget of the area and gradually moves to harsh conditions of water shortage in future decades. Therefore, some actions would be necessary to overcome the problem. Water conservation strategies‚ improvement of water use efficiency, and control on agricultural field expansions are some solutions that could be advised for the studied catchment.

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Evaluation of Water Balance in a Mountainous Upland Catchment Using SEBAL Approach

Dastorani

Poormohammadi

2012

Water Resour Manage

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“…The use of easily accessible data layers and the simple transformations they require (slope and distance from frequently flowing streams) make the model widely useful. The importance of using easily accessible information with standard knowledge of GIS-software in landscape planning was also considered in previous models as essential to extend its use Lesta et al 2007;Jasrotia et al 2009). It is expected that the accessibility of improved and more complete geographical information will increase in the future (Van Lonkhuyzen et al 2004).…”

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“…GIS-based suitability analysis resulted in a useful tool for landscape and environmental planning at regional (Baban and Wan-Yusof 2003) and catchment scales (Wang et al 2004;Saroinsong et al 2007;Jasrotia et al 2009). More specifically, suitability and prioritization studies for wetland restoration and planning have had two main perspectives: Wildlife preservation (Harris and Olson 1997;Van Lonkhuyzen et al 2004;McCauley and Jenkins 2005) and water quality improvement.…”

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Optimal Location of Created and Restored Wetlands in Mediterranean Agricultural Catchments

Moreno-Mateos

Mander

Pedrocchi

2010

Water Resour Manage

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Simple tools and accessible information are needed by environmental planners to select sites for the restoration or creation of wetlands. A flexible suitability model for allocating wetlands is demonstrated in small (20-2,000 ha) agricultural catchments in the semiarid Ebro basin (NE Spain). The model used improved existing data layers (soil and geomorphology), simple geographical transformations (slope and distance to frequently flowing streams) and other created data layers (land use). Detailed scales of data layers (∼1:5,000 and <30 m cell-size) are needed to work with small catchments. A deep knowledge of the study area is a requirement for reducing the subjectivity associated with experts' decision. The studied cases proved that 31% of catchment areas were suitable to create wetlands, and another 12% were very suitable. In 11 out of 12 studied catchments 100% of their existing wetlands fell into the area selected by the model as suitable. Most of the suitable area was situated in the lower parts of the catchments examined in the study. There is enough very suitable area in all catchments to fulfil the functional requirements of the wetlands to improve water quality. The model is a simple and useful tool for environmental planning in areas degraded by irrigated agricultural use.

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“…It is a system with different features which enables to analyze and store as spatial information for being used later with other models of water resources. Besides there are many databases which are available on internet such as climate variability, soil, land use/land cover, gauging stations, and these can be processed in geographical information system GIS (Jasrotia et al, 2009). It is playing a great role by being used as an important tool for hydrological modeling, and it processes Digital Elevation Model (DEM) to delineate watersheds and stream network (Maidment, 2002).…”

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Characterization of Beles River Basin of Blue Nile sub-Basin in North-Western Ethiopia using Arc-Hydro tools in Arc-GIS

Tefera¹

2017

Int. J. Water Res. Environ. Eng.

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Ethiopia is constantly affected by shortage of water for rain-fed agriculture, mainly because of lack of proper water resources utilization and management practices. For the efficient use of available surface water resources with balanced attention to maximize economic, social, and environmental benefits, it is necessary to have effective integrated water resources assessments and planning. Beles River Basin is one of the most potential river basins in Ethiopia, which is the main tributary for upper Blue Nile River Basin and accounting 14,200 km 2 . In order to supplement planning and development of this area, a detailed characterization of the basin is important. The main objective of this study is to process and determine different terrain processing parameters and morphology by using Arc-Hydro tools in Arc-GIS for generating different data for the basin. Therefore, it has been observed from this study that the drainage density is higher in relatively elevated areas especially when the weathered section is thick or when the pattern of structures crossing the rocks is higher. . Important basin information, like slope and contour lines has been determined through spatial analysis and the result indicated that about 52.8 % of slope was found to be relatively suitable for agricultural soil and water management options in Beles River Basin. In the future, it would be advisable to consider emerging issues in water resource measures like GIS modeling with Remote Sensing data for effective and efficient water resource management when there is limited and lack of data.

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Water Balance Approach for Rainwater Harvesting using Remote Sensing and GIS Techniques, Jammu Himalaya, India

Cited by 106 publications

References 11 publications

Evaluation of Water Balance in a Mountainous Upland Catchment Using SEBAL Approach

Evaluation of Water Balance in a Mountainous Upland Catchment Using SEBAL Approach

Optimal Location of Created and Restored Wetlands in Mediterranean Agricultural Catchments

Characterization of Beles River Basin of Blue Nile sub-Basin in North-Western Ethiopia using Arc-Hydro tools in Arc-GIS

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