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GIScience for the Sustainable Management of Water Resources GIScience for the Sustainable Management of Water Resources Edited by Gowhar Meraj Shruti Kanga Majid Farooq Suraj Kumar Singh Sudhanshu First edition published 2023 Apple Academic Press Inc. CRC Press 1265 Goldenrod Circle, NE, 6000 Broken Sound Parkway NW, Palm Bay, FL 32905 USA Suite 300, Boca Raton, FL 33487-2742 USA 760 Laurentian Drive, Unit 19, 4 Park Square, Milton Park, Burlington, ON L7N 0A4, CANADA Abingdon, Oxon, OX14 4RN UK © 2023 by Apple Academic Press, Inc. Apple Academic Press exclusively co-publishes with CRC Press, an imprint of Taylor & Francis Group, LLC Reasonable efforts have been made to publish reliable data and information, but the authors, editors, and publisher cannot assume responsibility for the validity of all materials or the consequences of their use. 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For works that are not available on CCC please contact [email protected] Trademark notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe. Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication Title: GIScience for the sustainable management of water resources / edited by Gowhar Meraj [and four others]. Names: Meraj, Gowhar, editor. Description: First edition. | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: Canadiana (print) 20220285772 | Canadiana (ebook) 20220285845 | ISBN 9781774910481 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781774910498 (softcover) | ISBN 9781003284512 (ebook) Subjects: LCSH: Water-supply—Management—Geographic information systems. Classification: LCC TD345 .G57 2023 | DDC 628.10285—dc23 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data CIP data on file with US Library of C o ngress ISBN: 978-1-77491-048-1 (hbk) ISBN: 978-1-77491-049-8 (pbk) ISBN: 978-1-00328-451-2 (ebk) About the Editors Gowhar Meraj (lead and corresponding editor) Dr. Gowhar Meraj is currently working as a Young Scientist Fellow under the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India’s Scheme for Young Scientists and Technologists (SYST) at the Department of Ecology, Environment and Remote sensing, Government of Jammu and Kashmir, India. Previously, he has worked as a Programme Officer on the ENVIS Scheme of the Ministry of Environment, Forests, and Climate Change (MoEF&CC) for five years. He has also worked as a consultant with World Bank Group, New Delhi, on its South Asia Water Initiative Program. He has more than 10 years of experience in research and teaching in various fields related to satellite remote sensing and geographic information science (GIS), such as hazard vulnerability assessments, hydrological modeling, flood assessment, water shed management, natural resource management, and ecosystem services and modeling. He has more than 50 publications in various international and national journals. He is also serving as academic editor in PeerJ-Life and Environment Journal and International Journal of Ecology, Hindawi. He is on reviewer boards of various SCI journals such as Information Fusion, Natural Hazards, Arabian Journal of Geosciences, Geocarto International, etc. He earned MSc, MPhil, and PhD degrees in Environmental Sciences with a special research focus on spatial information sciences. He has also holds a postgraduate diploma in Remote Sensing and GIS. Google scholar profile: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=tLe6B eEAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao Shruti Kanga Dr. Shruti Kanga is currently working as Associate Professor and Coordinator at the Centre for Climate Change and Water Resources, Suresh Gyan Vihar University, Jaipur, India. She has previously worked as Assistant Professor in the Centre for Land Resource Management, Central University of Jharkhand (CUJ), Ranchi. She also served as a research associate in the Ministry of Environment, Forest, and Climate Change (MoEF) and GoI-funded project vi About the Editors on forest fires and has teaching experience at different universities, including Central University of HNB Garhwal and the University of Jammu. She has attended and organized around 35 national and international conferences. She was also a course coordinator of several modules of EDUSAT-based distance learning program organized by the Indian Institute of Remote Sensing (IIRS), Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), Government of India. She has 12 years of teaching and research experience. She did her PhD in Technology (Geoinformatics) at the Department of Remote Sensing, Birla Institute of Technology, Ranchi, India. She has worked in the area of forest fires risk modeling and management, tourism, resource management, etc. Google scholar profile: https://scholar.google.co.in/citations?user=RSkm ve8AAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao Majid Farooq Dr. Majid Farooq is currently Scientist-D at the Department of Ecology, Envi ronment and Remote Sensing, Government of Jammu and Kashmir, India. He has more than 15 years of experience in research, teaching, and consultancy related to remote sensing and GIS, such as climate change vulnerability assessments, flood modeling, ecosystem assessment, watershed management, natural resource management, and ecosystem services and modeling. He has more than 35 publications in various international and national journals. In addition, he has also served as a reviewer for various SCI journals, such as Environmental Monitoring and Assessment (Springer), International Journal of Remote Sensing (Taylor and Francis), etc. He has done his MTech in remote sensing and GIS from SRM University, Chennai, India. Google Scholar profile: https://scholar.google.co.in/citations?user=6X2n 7iMAAAAJ&hl=en Suraj Kumar Singh Dr. Suraj Kumar Singh is currently working as Associate Professor and Coordinator at the Centre for Sustainable Development, Suresh Gyan Vihar University, Jaipur, India. Previously, he worked as an Assistant Professor in the Centre for Land Resource Management, Central University of Jharkhand About the Editors vii (CUJ), Ranchi. He has also served as research associate at the National Remote Sensing Centre (NRSC) and at the Indian Space Research Organiza tion (ISRO) and on GoI-sponsored projects, such as the National Wasteland Mapping and National Urban Information System for the northern parts of India. He has worked in the area of waterlogging and flood hazards, geospatial applications in water resources, disaster management, hydrogeo morphology, urban planning, and wasteland mapping. He was also a course coordinator of different modules of the EDUSAT-based distance learning program organized by the Indian Institute of Remote Sensing (IIRS), Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), Government of India. He has 12 years of teaching and research experience. He had the responsibility of an NSS program officer at the Central University of Jharkhand and coordinator of Centre for Sustainable development, Suresh Gyan Vihar University, Jaipur, India. He earned his PhD degree in Technology (Geoinformatics) at the Department of Remote Sensing, Birla Institute of Technology, Ranchi, India. Google Scholar profile: https://scholar.google.co.in/citations?user=wXl G45AAAAAJ&hl=en Sudhanshu Dr. Sudhanshu is the chief mentor at the Suresh Gyan Vihar University, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India. He is an expert geologist with over 30 years of experience in research and teaching. Contents Contributors ...........................................................................................................xiii Editorial Advisory Board ......................................................................................xvii Abbreviations ......................................................................................................... xix Introduction ..........................................................................................................xxiii Preface .................................................................................................................. xxv PART I: Integrating tools of GIScience for Planning Sustainable Development at Landscape Level ..................................................................1 1. Managing Urban Stormwater for Sustainable Urban Development: A Geospatial Approach ...................................................................................3 Mona Khakhar, Smit Patel, and Anjana Vyas 2. Remote Sensing and GIS-Based Water Resource Monitoring for Sustainable Crop Intensification and Diversification ................................23 S. Panneerselvam, S. Pazhanivelan, K. P. Ragunath, P. Kumaresan, and N. Balakrishnan 3. Using Analytical Hierarchical Process (AHP)-Based Geospatial Approach for Identification of Suitable Sites for Artificial Recharge Structures for Sustainable Water Resource Management ........................41 M. Rajasekhar, G. Sudarsana Raju, and Y. Sreenivasulu 4. Prioritization of Watersheds for Sustainable Water Resource Management at Basin Level Using Remote Sensing and Geographic Information System .................................................................61 Subhanil Guha and Himanshu Govil 5. Use of GI Science for Understanding the Flood and Gully Erosion at Landscape Level ...............................................................73 Ugwuegbu Ikechukwu Emmanuel and Ifeka Adolphus 6. Mapping Groundwater Potential Zones Using Satellite Remote Sensing and GIS ............................................................................109 Uzair Ahmed, Abid Sarwar, Fazli Amin Khalil, Shazia Gulzar, Nadia Qayum, and Rimsha Qureshi