Detailed morphometric analysis of man river basin in akola. Basin analysis is a process that requires the integration of various methods and data sets with the purpose of understanding the origin and evolution of sedimentary basins. Pdf morphometric investigation of morna river basin. Pdf morphometric analysis of ghaghara river basin, india. For this lab, you will interpolate the elevation of the basin mouth to the nearest 10 feet and perform the associated subtraction.
The relief characteristics were used to generate the hypsometric curve which exhibit the monadnock and reliefs of coastal morphology. To understand the drainage basin dynamics and their usefulness in watershed prioritisation and management in terms of soil. Morphometric based prioritization of watershed for. Morphometric and terrain analysis of payaswani river basin of. Morphometric analysis of river basin characteristics a boulton on. A morphometric analysis of shanur basin has been carried out using geoprocessing techniques in gis. Morphometric analyses of neyyar river basin, southern. Morphometric analysis with reference to hydrogeological.
The morphometric analysis of the drainage basin and channel network play a vital role for understanding the geohydrological behavior of drainage basin and expresses the prevailing climate, geology, geomorphology, structural, etc. The watershed of the mhadei river is an integral part of the mandovi river basin fig. The major share of monsoon rainfall concentrated during july and august month. The land we live on eventually drains to a river or estuary or lake, and our actions affect water. Research article morphometry governs the dynamics of a. In this paper, quantitative techniques which solely involved the use of formula and geospatial techniques gis applications were used to examine the morphometric characteristics linear, aerial and relief of the basin. It is identified as calculating the arrangement of a stream in the hierarchy of streams and tributaries 26. Streams of the middle columbia river basin oregon, washington, and idaho using sparrow models, with emphasis on the yakima river basin, washington scientific investigations report 205199 prepared in cooperation with washington state department of ecology and u. Shetrunji basin falling in the district of bhavanagar, amreli and junagadh, is a major one among 71 river basins of saurashtra region of the gujarat state, india. This is the most common technique in basin analysis, as morphometry form an ideal areal unit for interpretation and analysis.
The river basin is located in the south eastern part of nigeria and precisely in cross river. It is also well observed that remote sensing satellite data is emerging as the most effective, time saving and accurate technique for morphometric analysis of a basin. Morphometric analysis of river basin characteristics. Morphometric analysis of a watershed provides a quantitative description of the drainage system which is an important aspect of characterization of watersheds strahler, 1964. The extracted drainage network was classified according to strahlers system of classification and it reveals that the terrain exhibits dendritic to subdendritic drainage pattern. Perimeter length is the linear length of a drainage basin.
Quantitative analysis of drainage basin morphometric parameters is of immense utility in river basin evaluation, watershed prioritization for soil and water. Basin analysis and petroleum systems modeling of the. Formulas for right circular cones have been fitted to the configurations of alluvial fans. Morphometric analysis of the manas river basin using earth. Basin morphometry gives the signs of an influence on. It is important in any hydrological investigation like assessment of groundwater potential, groundwater management, basin management and environmental assessment. Estimation of total nitrogen and total phosphorus in streams. The morphometric analysis of satna river basin was carried out by means of remote sensing data landsat and srtm and geographic information system gis techniques used for potential expansion. River basin models have been used to aid in the determination of fair and equitable longterm water sharing agreements or shortterm operational plans in transboundary basins. Geospatial analysis of morphometric characteristics of. Aqueduct metadata document mekong river basin study pdf. Pdf morphometric analysis of morar river basin, madhya. Drainage basin setup e supin river basin is located in uttarkashi district of uttarakhand figure and situated between e and n.
Mountainous rivers are the most significant source of water supply in the himalayan provinces of india. For this study, the shuttle radar topographic mission srtm digital elevation model dem is used for evaluation of morphometric components like. The basin is delimited by the drainage basins of the ajoy and its tributes in the east, irga in the west, burnur and knuda in the north and khako and barakar in the south. The committee on the scientific bases of colorado river basin water management was appointed to. Geographical information system techniques have been used for the identification of geomorphological features and analyzing the properties of the banas river basin area in rajasthan state, india. Morphometric analysis coupled with drainage network analysis was carried out for. Morphometric analysis of a drainage basin using geographical. Also, the implication of drainage basin morphometry for hydrologic processes in the basin was examined. Morphometric analysis of morar river basin, madhya pradesh. Morphometric analysis of the gal oya river basin using. Purchase morphometry of drainage basins, volume 20 1st edition. Morphometric analysis of tandava river basin, andhra.
A morphometric analysis of linear aspects of usri river basin. Morphometric analysis, drainage pattern, indrayani river, deccan basalts introduction the morphometric analysis of the drainage basin and channel network play a vital role in order to understand the hydrogeological behavior of drainage basin and expresses the prevailing climate, geology, geomorphology and structure etc. The morphometric analysis is done with linear, aerial, relief aspect, the slope, and a gradient of a channel by many researchers 9,10. Morphometric analysis of a river basin provides a quantitative description of the drainage system, which is an important aspect of the characterization of basins 4. Payaswani river basin stream order and frequency stream order no. Morphometric analysis of kadvi river basin, maharashtra using. Large parts of our planet earth consists of hard rocks, where water is restricted to secondary permeability, and thus to the fractures and the weathered zones. Such information was used to describe the basin as a landform.
These techniques are found relevant for the extraction of river basin and its drainage networks. Morphometric parameters of the calabar river basin. The palar river basin is one of the major rivers in southern peninsular india. Morphometric and terrain analysis of payaswani river basin. The drainage basin dynamics of these rivers are controlled by the tectonomorphic parameters, which include both surface and subsurface characteristics of a basin. A gisbased approach in drainage morphometric analysis of. Morphometric analysis of thadayampatti watershed, madurai. A morphometric analysis of morna river proceeds using geospatial techniques.
Morphometric analysis of kundka subbasin was carried out using remote sensing and gis. Lone a 2017 morphometric and morphotectonic analysis of ferozpur drainage basin left bank tributary of river jhelum of kashmir v alley, nw himalayas, india. Some workers refer to this parameter as basin height. Morphometric analysis of kundka sub basin was carried out using remote sensing and gis. Estimation of total nitrogen and total phosphorus in. Morphometric analysis of the banas river basin using the. Drainage basin morphometric parameters of river lamurde. Basic facts on the sava river basin the sava river basin is a major drainage basin of the south eastern europe, covering the total area of approximately 97,7. The transboundary river basin profile is a summary of key information that gives an overview of the water resources and water. Morphometric analysis of morar river basin, madhya pradesh, india, using remote sensing and gis techniques article pdf available in environmental earth sciences 68volume 68 number 7.
Analysis of water use on a large river basin using mike basin. Drainage basin, hawul basin, geospatial, morphometric. Morphometric analysis of the manas river basin using earth observation data and geographical information system jenita mary nongkynrih, zahid husain international journal of geomatics and geosciences volume 2 issue 2, 2011 648 length of the manas river flows is about 106. The study area man river basin which is located in the survey of india toposheet nos. Jun 23, 2015 a morphometric analysis of shanur basin has been carried out using geoprocessing techniques in gis. The study couples hypsometry analysis with the gis technology. The total geographical area of the basin is 5,654 km 2. Morphometric analysis gives a quantitative description of drainage basin. Therefore, the scope for the natural recharge is very less. Linear and aerial aspect of basin morphometry of kundka. Study area the study area of the watershed is the south pennar basin, a east flowing river also known as ponnaiyar basin covers an area of 10. Formulas for right circular cones have been fitted to the configurations of alluvial fans, logarithmic spirals have been used to describe certain shapes of beaches, and drumlins, spoon. A drainage basin is any area of land where precipitation collects and drains off into a common.
Mapping of lineaments in adwa river basin using remote sensing and gis techniques sharmistha nagal research scholar department of geography university of allahabad india abstract. Certain soil types such as sandy soils are very freedraining, and rainfall on sandy soil is likely to. Certification program participants should continue online and remote, independent study. Morphometric analysis of ghaghara river basin, india, using srtm data and gis article pdf available in journal of the geological society of india 952. To understand the drainage basin dynamics and their usefulness in watershed prioritisation and management in terms of soil erosion studies and groundwater potential assessment and flood hazard risk reduction in mountainous rivers, morphometric analysis of a himalayan river supin river basin has been taken as a case study. Morphometric analysis of river basin was performed by determining the parameters like drainage area. The morphometric analysis of linear aspects of usri.
The thermal and mechanical properties of the lithosphere exert important controls on the. It is essentially an assemblage of techniques which have become both an important part of geomorphology ahd a useful set of morphometric inputs to hydrologic models of river basins. Amazon river basin food and agriculture organization of the. Morphometry of drainage basins, volume 20 1st edition. Linear and aerial aspect of basin morphometry of kundka sub. Because drainage basins are discrete landforms suitable for statistical, comparative, and analytical analyses. Morphometric analysis of drainage basin through gis. Article information, pdf download for drainage basin morphometry, open epub for drainage basin morphometry. Different aspects of morphometric analyses depends upon geological transformation of earth surface. Parallel work of basin morphometry has been carried out by abrahams, langbein, leopold, and maddock 68. The study indicates that analysis of morphometric parameters with the help of geographic information system gis would prove a viable method of characterizing the hydrological response behaviour of the watershed.
Drainage basin morphometry and river network analysis. Morphometric analysis is a bit very advantageous for the study of minor intermittent river like tandava river basin and hence this study is intended to present the characteristic of tandava river basin trb by following scientific formula and procedures. It flows through the indian states of chhattisgarh, jharkhand and uttar pradesh fig. A river basin model is a mathematical model that represents the relevant processes in a river basin and can predict the behavior of the. Morphometric analysis, quantitative description and analysis of landforms as practiced in geomorphology that may be applied to a particular kind of landform or to drainage basins and large regions generally. Location map of usri river basin results and discussions morphometric analysis of linear aspects of usri river basin. The structure of landscape determines the river flow from upper to lower elevation.
Domri sub basin of sindphana river is chosen for present morphometric analysis. Mapping of lineaments in adwa river basin using remote. View river basin morphometry research papers on academia. The first step of morphometric analysis of the river basin is to get the stream order. The kanhar originates at gidhadhodha on the khudia plateau in jashpur district of chhattisgarh. Given the colorado rivers importance, variations in its flow record have long been of keen interest to many parties. Quantitative morphometric analysis facilitates understanding of the drainage development, surface runoff generation, infiltration capacity of the ground and groundwater potential. Study area the calabar river is a major tributary of the cross river. The entire basin has first order to fourth order streams that reveal medium developed dendritic type drainage network table 1 stream order name order i ii iii iv total ws1 23 6 2 1 32 ws2 6 2 1 9 ws3 2 1 3 total 31 9 3 1 44 individual counting of the streams in the river basin reveals the total number of. The basin morphometric parameters including linear and aerial aspects of the kundka river sub basin were determined and computed.
The quantitative analysis of river basin evaluation, watershed prioritization, soil and water conservation, and natural resources management at micro level has been defined using different. The basin morphometric parameters including linear and aerial aspects of the kundka river. Analysis of water use on a large river basin using mike. Morphometric analysis of the gal oya river basin using spatial data derived from gis n. Morphometric analysis of kadvi river basin, maharashtra. A river basin model is a mathematical model that represents the relevant processes in a river basin and can. Morphometry governs the dynamics of a drainage basin. Morphometric analyses of neyyar river basin, southern kerala. The drainage basin analysis is important in any hydrological. Gis and hypsometry based analysis on the evolution of sub.
Detailed drainage map was prepared from soi toposheets digitized in arcgis 10. Gis based quantitative morphometric analysis and its. Assessment of drainage and their relative parameters have been quantitatively carried out for the morar river basin, which has made positive scientific contribution for the local people of area for the sustainable water resource development and management. The various above morphometric parameters such as linear, areal and relief aspect were used for this present studies. Basin morphometry is a means of mathematically quantifying different aspects of a. The data selection and validation process for the mekong river basin study involved three steps. Morphometric studies are first attempted by horton, strahler, smith, schumm, and miller 15. Mhadei river is an integral part of the mandovi river basin fig. Hawul basin is one of the prominent river basins in north eastern part of nigeria. Pdf morphometric analysis of drainage basin using gis approach. Various formula were adopted to obtain some of the major morphometric characteristics of the. Hydrogeological mapping and drainage analysis can form an important tool for groundwater development. Pdf morphometric analysis of drainage basin using gis.
The morna river basin is estimated to have an area of 172. Stream ordering method was first invented by horton 27 in 1945, but later on in 1952 strahler 28 has modified stream ordering method and published it. Morphometric analysis of kadvi river basin, maharashtra using geospatial techniques article pdf available in current world environment 123 december 2017 with 310 reads how we measure reads. Watershed boundary, flow direction, flow accumulation, flow length, stream ordering have been prepared using hydrological tool and slopeaspect have been prepared using surface tool in arcgis. Prioritization of subwatersheds based on morphometric analysis of drainage basin using remote sensing and gis techniques was attempted by 10 in subwatersheds of sharpha river located in. Morphometrical analysis of imphal river basin using gis shamurailatpam ashalata sharma department of earth sciences, manipur university, canchipur, imphal, india author for correspondence abstract gis and image processing techniques were adopted to identify the morphological features and to analyse their properties. Recent treering analyses have incorporated updated chronologies and longer calibration periods to estimate annual colorado river flows over the past several. Morphometric and terrain analysis of payaswani river basin of kerala and karnataka states using gis sukumar b, ahalya sukumar international journal of geomatics and geosciences volume 4 issue 2, 20 358 figure 1. The morphometric studies of river integrates the new geo morphological features with the climatic factors such as rainfall, temperature, atmospheric pressure and. The lengths of the streams, areas of the watershed were measured by using. Quantitative analysis of the drainage and morphometric. The entire basin has first order to fourth order streams that reveal medium developed dendritic type drainage network table 1 stream order name order i ii iii iv total ws1 23 6 2 1 32 ws2 6 2 1 9 ws3 2 1 3 total 31 9 3 1 44 individual counting of the streams in the river basin reveals the total number of the streams. Morphometric and terrain analysis of payaswani river basin of kerala and karnataka states using gis sukumar b, ahalya sukumar international journal of geomatics and geosciences volume 4 issue 2, 20 361 3. The main aim of the present study is to identify the morphometric parameters of a watershed of mula river basin, pune district of state maharashtra, india, and to prioritize the sub basin.
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