The north fars watershed is one of the major sources of irrigation and drinking water supplies for the fars province in iran. Morphometric analysis of colanguil river basin and flash flood. Morphometric analysis of the study area, consisting of 14 subwatersheds w1 to w14, was carried out. Morphometric analysis and subwatersheds prioritization of nagmati. Pdf morphometric analysis of a watershed of south india using. Introduction integrated watershed development of any region is an effective procedural measure for the conservation and development of natural as well as cultural resources. Thus the comparison of various parts of a watershed does not depend on the interpretation of descriptive words only. 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. In this paper, an attempt has been made to study the detailed morphometric characteristics of vincharna watershed, tributary of the sina river basin in ahmednagar district, maharashtra. The lengths of the streams, areas of the watershed were measured by using arcgis10 software, and stream ordering has been generated using strahler 1953 system, and in arcgis10 software. Based on morphometric analysis, the watershed has been classified into three categories as high medium and low in terms of priority for conservation and management of natural resources. Morphometric study is the typical representation of drainage basin which reflects their. Morphometric analysis has been commonly applied to prioritization of watersheds.
So morphometric parameters add quantitative information to the descriptive information. Hydrological inferences through morphometric analysis of lower. Pdf application of rs and gis for morphometric analysis. Basic param eters include watershed area, perimeter, stream length, stream order and basin length. The major sources of water for this watershed are rain and snow. Morphometric analysis of watershed using gis and rs. Students will use the imagej program to measure salamanders and record total length, body width, head width and eye width. The growing demand and competition for water from domestic, industrial and agricultural sectors reached utmost limit.
Geographical information system gis techniques are now a days used for. Linear aspects include the measurements of linear features of drainage such as stream order, bifurcation ratio, stream length, stream length ratio, length of overland flow etc. Watershed prioritization is the ranking of different sub watersheds of a watershed according to the order in which they have to be taken for treatment and soil conservation measures. Morphometric analysis of a phulambri river drainage basin. The morphometric analysis of a w a tershed reveals valuable information regarding to logical processes, geo hydro morphic processes and development of the land surface 9 10. This supporting file describes the instructions of using image j, ipp and spreadsheets to perform the nma analysis.
Quantitative morphometric analysis of a watershed of. Morphometric analysis of the study area, consisting of 14 subwatersheds w1 to. Remote sensing and geographic information system gis is an important tool used to derive and understand various physical property of a basin area which includes landform measurement shape and size. Drainage basins, catchments, and subcatchments are the hydrological units ideally suited for planning of conservation of land and. Vrishabhavathi watershed is a constituent of the arkavathi river basin, bangalore urban and ramanagara district and covers an area of 381. Morphometric analysis of hemavathi watershed morphometry is the measurement and mathematical analysis of configuration of the earth surface, shape and dimension of its landforms in a given drainage basin clarke 1966. Analysis of basic and linear morphometric parameters using. If not, give the students the excel worksheet with the graphs provided. Sub watershed, morphometric analysis, land use land cover, prioritization. Watershed is taken as a catchment area where a larger stream is formed due to runoff resulting from precipitation merging at one point.
Morphometric analysis of a drainage basin using geographical information system. Morphometric and hydrological analysis of krishni river. The nii plugin of the image j software was developed to extract the morphometric. Assessment of drainage network and their relative parameters have been quantitatively carried out for the chakrar watershed of madhya pradesh, india, to understand the prevailing geological variation, topographic information and. Morphometric analysis of tons basin, rewa district madhya pradesh, based on watershed approach. The largest red line is the median nodes sampled 14 nodes, the medium sized redlines the 25 th and 75 th quantiles 12 and 16 nodes, respectively, and the. S2 provides a tool for an interactive study of medaka anatomy with the option for further analysis of anatomical details. Morphometric analysis is the measurement of the three dimensional geometry of landforms and has traditionally been applied to watershed, drainages, hill slopes and other group of terrain features babar 2005. Land, water and soil are limited natural resources and their wide utilization with increasing population is a major area of interest of most countries. Morphometric analysis is very helpful to understand the underlying factors.
Morphometry governs the dynamics of a drainage basin. Pdf morphometric analysis of dhaneri watershed, gambhar river. For example, when we know the shape and structure of a lake basin, we can sometimes predict how weather conditions or humaninduced events may affect water levels in that system. A drainage morphometric analysis of nagavathi watershed in dharmapuri district has been chosen for the. The goal of this activity is to provide students an opportunity to analyze the stream pattern and morphometric relationships of a particular watershed.
Morphometric analysis for the present study is grouped into three classes such as linear aspects, areal aspects and relief aspects. Watershed analysis of stream morphology activities. Morphometric analysis, geomorphology, remote sensing and gis. A gisbased approach in drainage morphometric analysis of kanhar. The morphometric analysis of the karawan watershed was carried out on the survey of india topographical maps no. Morphometric analysis of drainage basin through gis. Watershed prioritization based on geomorphometry and. Linear and aerial aspect of basin morphometry of kundka. Morphometric analysis, watershed prioritization, dhaneri watershed, gambhar river basin, himachal pradesh, india. The morphometric analysis of the drainage basin and channel network play an important role in understanding the geohydrological behaviour of drainage basin and expresses the prevailing climate. Students will use topographic map analysis and data collection, along with analysis of data using excel to characterize their watershed.
Morphometric analysis of maun watershed in tehrigarhwal. A dotplot showing the number of vines sampled for each species. If the inline pdf is not rendering correctly, you can download the pdf file here. Morphometric assessment of wadi wala watershed, southern. The influence of drainage morphometric is very significant in understanding the landform processes, soil.
The lower wardha watersheds are elongated watershed in shape occupies in yeotmal district of maharashtra, india fig. S1 species replication and number of nodes sampled. Introduction in geomorphology, morphometry is a quantification of morphology. Application of quantitative techniques in morphometric analysis of drainage basins was initially undertaken by horton et al. A gisbased approach in drainage morphometric analysis of.
Quantitative analysis and implications of drainage morphometry of. Spatial parameters prove valuable, however, in determining whether basins are sufficiently similar for direct comparison. The information obtained from morphometric analysis of watersheds is thus a crucial tool for water resource management. The morphometric analysis is done successfully through measurement of linear, aerial, relief, gradient of channel network and contributing ground slope of the. A case study of sukhna lake watershed in lower shiwalik, india. Introduction a watershed is the surface area drained by a part or the totality. The drainage patterns are dendritic and parallel, covering 390. Pdf an attempt has been made to study drainage morphometry and its influence on hydrology of wailapalli watershed, south india. Analysis of hydrological inferences through morphometric.
Watershed prioritization is the ranking of different subwatersheds of a watershed according to the order in which they have to be taken for treatment for water and soil conservation measures javed et al. Morphometric analysis requires measurement of linear features, aerial. Quantitative morphometric analysis facilitates understanding of the drainage development, surface runoff generation, infiltration capacity of the ground and groundwater potential. The interactive pdf file of the 3d virtual atlas supplementary fig. Introduction morphometric analysis of a watershed provides a quantitative description of the drainage system, which is an important aspect of the characterization of watersheds strahler, 1964. Morphometic analysis refers to the quantitative analysis of form. Also it is helpful in predicting watershed maturity, erosion intensity, hydrological peak etc. The morphometric analysis of the gp8 watershed was carried out on the survey of india topographical maps. Watershed prioritization based on morphometric analysis. Morphometric analysis of a watershed provides a quantitative description of the drainage system which is an important aspect of the characterization of watersheds strahler, 1964. The morphometric analysis of the drainage basin is aimed to acquire.
An assessment of varuna river basin of india was performed to study the. The fast emerging spatial information technology, remote sensing, gis, and gps have effective tools to overcome most of the problems of land and water resources planning and management. Morphometric and hydrological analysis of krishni river watershed, uttar pradesh, india. Morphometric analysis of a semi urban watershed, trans. Morphometric analysis of patapur goladinninala watershed. Compared to the manual approach, this package provides a rational. Morphometric analysis, gandheswari river watershed, digital elevation model, basin geometry, drainage texture. To achieve the morphometric analysis, survey of india. For example, to study the effects of fire, one might compare a vegetated watershed with a burned watershed. Pingale et al international journal of geomatics and geosciences 374 volume 3 issue 2, 2012 pandey et al.
Morphometric analysis of watershed is the best method to identify the relationship of various aspects in the area. Remote sensing and geographical information system gis techniques are increasingly being used for morphometric analysis of drainage basins throughout the world 9. The quantitative analysis of drainage system is an important aspect of characterization of watersheds. A morphometric analysis contributes to the understanding oflinear,areal,andreliefaspectsofthedrainagebasinpareta. Vandana m, 2012 carried out morphometric analysis for kabini river basin and morphometric analysis is used as a tool for prioritization of sub watershed in the basin. Morphometric assessment of wadi wala watershed, southern jordan using aster dem and gis. Department of geography, university of jordan, amman, jordan. Gis based quantitative morphometric analysis and its consequences.
Geospatial approach for quantitative drainage morphometric. Morphometric analysis of maun watershed in tehrigarhwal district of uttarakhand using gis santosh m. Pdf morphometric analysis of vincharna river watershed. Drainage morphometric analysis of the nagavathi watershed. In this study, aster dem is used to extract the vital hydrological parameters of lower kosi river basin in arc gis software. Morphometric analysis is of vital concern to understand hydromophological processes in a given watershed, and thus, it is a priority for assessing water resources in drainage basins. The areas of watershed where the changes are concentrated can also be identified and watershed management program. Prioritization of microwatersheds in the balekoppa sub. Morphometric analysis of a watershed provides a quantitative description of the drainage system, which is an important aspect of the characterization of watersheds strahler, 1964. Quantitative morphometric analysis of adult teleost fish.
Morphometric analysis of tons basin, rewa district, madhya. Mini watershed delineated layer is used to obtain basic morphometric parameters such as area a, perimeter p, length. B boxplot showing the number of nodes sampled for vines from each species. Morphometric analysis of kakoi river watershed for study. Indices of watershed morphometry can interpret the shape and hydrological characteristics of a river basin 1. Morphometric analysis of any watershed and its prioritization is one of the important aspects of. The gis based morphometric analysis of this drainage basin revealed that the charthana is 4 th order drainage basin and drainage pattern mainly in subdendritic to dendritic type thereby indicates homogeneity in texture and lack of structural control. This is important because, as many lake residents already know, changes in water levels can influence the water quality of. What are the uses and applications of morphometric. Quantitative morphometric analysis of watershed can provide information about the hydrological nature of the rocks exposed within the watershed singh et al. Manual extraction of drainage network and assigning the stream order. A morphometric analysis was conducted to identify the drainage properties of wadi wala and the 23 fourthorder sub. Form of the basin, by compactness of gravelius index drainage density difference in.
Morphometric analysis of thadayampatti watershed, madurai. The morphometric analysis of viswamitre watershed was car1. Ap biology, aquatic science, environmental systems. The watershed of the mhadei river is an integral part of the mandovi river basin fig. The quantitative analysis of the watershed is important for the quantification of the channel network and to understand its geohydrological behaviour. Pdf morphometric analysis of kolavadi subwatershed in. Morphometric analysis in this regard displays intrinsic information related to drainage basins such as morphology, slope, soils, runoff characteristics, and potential of water resources. Morphometric analysis is a significant tool for prioritization of subwatersheds even without considering the soil map biswas et al. Abstract morphometric analysis is of vital concern to understand hydromophological processes in a given watershed, and thus, it is a priority for assessing water. Any clues, to perform the morphometric analysis of a watershed. 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. Land, water and soil are limited natural resources and their widely utilizationwith increased population is a major concern.
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