Mapping, Monitoring, and Modeling Land and Water Resources: Advanced Techniques Using Open Source Software

349 Pages·2021·162.703 MB·English

by  Pravat Kumar Shit, Pulakesh Das, Gouri Sankar Bhunia, Dipanwita Dutta

Mapping, Monitoring,
and Modeling Land and
Water Resources

Mapping, Monitoring,
and Modeling Land and
Water Resources
Advanced Techniques Using Open Source Software
Edited by Pravat Kumar Shit, Pulakesh Das,
Gouri Sankar Bhunia, and Dipanwita Dutta
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Names: Shit, Pravat Kumar, editor. | Das, Pulakesh, editor. | Bhunia, Gouri
Sankar, editor. | Dutta, Dipanwita, editor.
Title: Mapping, monitoring, and modeling land and water resources :
advanced techniques using open source software / edited by Pravat Kumar
Shit, Pulakesh Das, Gouri Sankar Bhunia, and Dipanwita Dutta.
Description: First edition. | Boca Raton : CRC Press, 2021. | Includes
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Identifiers: LCCN 2020057790 (print) | LCCN 2020057791 (ebook) | ISBN
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Subjects: LCSH: Environmental monitoring--India--Case studies. |
Environmental mapping--India--Case studies. | Natural
resources--Management--Data processing. | Environmental
monitoring--Geographic information systems. | Environmental
monitoring--Remote sensing. | Environmental management--Computer
simulation. | Open source software.
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Contents
Preface...............................................................................................................................................xi
Acknowledgments ..........................................................................................................................xiii
Editors ..............................................................................................................................................xv
Contributors ...................................................................................................................................xvii
Chapter 1 Introduction to Part I: Mapping, Monitoring, and Modeling of Land Resources ........1
Pravat Kumar Shit and Gouri Sankar Bhunia
Chapter 2 Spatio-Temporal Investigation of Mining Activity and Its Effect on Landscape
Dynamics: A Geo-Spatial Study of Beejoliya Tehsil, Rajasthan (India) .....................5
Brijmohan Bairwa, Rashmi Sharma, Arnab Kundu, and K. K. Chattoraj
Chapter 3 Mapping Areas for Growing Pulses in Rice Fallows Using Multi-Criteria
Spatial Decisions ........................................................................................................21
Raj Kumar Singh, Chandrashekhar Biradar, Ashutosh Sarker, Atul Dogra,
and Javed Rizvi
Chapter 4 Assessing Desertification Using Long-Term MODIS and Rainfall Data in
Himachal Pradesh (India) ..........................................................................................33
Ravi Teja, N. R. Patel, and Arnab Kundu
Chapter 5 Land Use/Land Cover Characteristics of Odisha Coastal Zone:
A Retrospective Analysis during the Period between 1990 and 2017 .......................49
Santanu Roy, Gouri Sankar Bhunia, and Abhisek Chakrabarty
Chapter 6 Evaluating Landscape Dynamics in Jamunia Watershed, Jharkhand (India)
Using Earth Observation Datasets .............................................................................71
Mukesh Kumar, Piyush Gourav, Lakhan Lal Mahato, Arnab Kundu,
Alex Frederick, K. M. Sharon, Akash Pal, and Deepak Lal
Chapter 7 Drought Frequency and Soil Erosion Problems in Puruliya District of
West Bengal, India: A Geo-Environmental Study .....................................................83
Abhisek Santra and Shreyashi S. Mitra
Chapter 8 Effects of Cyclone Fani on the Urban Landscape Characteristics of Puri Town,
India: A Geospatial Study Using Free and Open Source Software .........................103
Anindya Ray Ahmed, Asit Kumar Roy, Suman Mitra, and Debajit Datta
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Chapter 9 Land Resource Mapping and Monitoring: Advances of Open Source
Geospatial Data and Techniques ..............................................................................121
Gouri Sankar Bhunia and Pravat Kumar Shit
Chapter 10 Introduction to Part II: Mapping, Monitoring, and Modeling of
Water Resources .......................................................................................................145
P. Das and Dipanwita Dutta
Chapter 11 Improving Wetland Mapping Techniques Using the Integration of Image
Fusion Techniques and Artificial Neural Network (ANN) ......................................149
Swapan Talukdar, Shahfahad, Roquia Salam, Abdus Samad, Mohd Rihan,
and Atiqur Rahman
Chapter 12 Open Source Geospatial Technologies for Generation of Water Resource
Development Plan .....................................................................................................165
Arati Paul and V. M. Chowdary
Chapter 13 Geo-Spatial Enabled Water Resource Development Plan for Decentralized
Planning in India: Myths and Facts .........................................................................179
Anand N. Shakya, Indal K. Ramteke, and Pritam S. Wanjari
Chapter 14 Automatic Extraction of Surface Waterbodies of Bilaspur District,
Chhattisgarh (India) .................................................................................................197
Soumen Brahma, Gouri Sankar Bhunia, S. R. Kamlesh, and Pravat Kumar Shit
Chapter 15 Valuing Ecosystem Services for the Protection of Coastal Wetlands Using
Benefit Transfer Approach: Evidence from Bangladesh ..........................................211
Muhammad Mainuddin Patwary, Md. Riad Hossain, Sadia Ashraf,
Rabeya Sultana, and Faysal Kabir Shuvo
Chapter 16 Identification of Groundwater Prospect of Bilaspur District: A Multi-Criteria
Decision Making Approach .....................................................................................225
Soumen Bramha, Gouri Sankar Bhunia, and S. R. Kamlesh
Chapter 17 Long-Term Drought Assessment and Prediction Driven by CORDEX-RCM:
A Study on a Hydro-Meteorologically Significant Watershed of West Bengal .......243
Shreyashi S. Mitra, Abhisek Santra, Akhilesh Kumar, and Shidharth Routh
Chapter 18 Use of Open Source Software to Assess Spatio-Temporal Variation of
Agricultural Drought at Regional Scale ...................................................................275
Debarati Bera and Dipanwita Dutta
Contents ix
Chapter 19 Snow Cover Monitoring Using Topographical Parameters for Beas
River Catchment Area ..............................................................................................297
Chetna Soni, Arpana Chaudhary, and Chilka Sharma
Chapter 20 Land Surface Water Resource Monitoring and Climate Change .............................311
P. Das, V. Pandey, and Dipanwita Dutta
Index ..............................................................................................................................................327