This document discusses using remote sensing and GIS techniques to map groundwater prospects zones. It presents a case study of applying these methods in Bata Valley, Himachal Pradesh, India. The methodology involves developing thematic maps of factors like geology, land use, and water levels. These maps are then overlaid and analyzed in GIS to identify zones of good, moderate, or poor groundwater potential. The study concludes these techniques can effectively map groundwater prospects and inform management plans.

1. “Application of Remote Sensing and GIS in
Groundwater Prospects Zonation”
Presented by:
Vishwanath Awati
vawati68@gmail.com

2. • Introduction
• Objectives
• Literature review
• Methodologies
• Case Study
• Conclusion
• References
Contents

3.  One of the most pressing global issues currently being faced by the mankind is the increase
in world’s population and its impact on the availability of freshwater.
 As ground water forms an important component of the total water supply (e.g. about 90% in
rural areas and 30% in urban areas of India (NRSA 2000).
 The aquifers are often under stress, resulting in lowering of the water table and drying up of
springs and wells at many places.
 This has attracted the attention of find appropriate and efficient techniques to locate
potential sites for drilling of wells and for putting up artificial recharge structures in order to
ensure sustainability of well yields and counter the problem of water table depletion.
Introduction

4. Remote Sensing (RS) and Geographic Information System (GIS) techniques have
emerged as handy, complementary tools in assessing, monitoring and conserving ground
water resources.
Ground prospects zonation means identifying and mapping the prospective groundwater
zones in an area by qualitative assessment of the controlling and indicative parameters.
controlling parameters Lithology (texture, origin, distribution), Geological Structures
(bedding, faults, fractures, shear zones, folds) Geomorphology(origin and assemblage of
different landforms, depth of weathering, thickness of deposited material, etc.) Hydrology
(surface water bodies, surface and ground water irrigated areas, depth to water table and
fluctuation, well yields and rainfall).

5. • Developing thematic maps related to geomorphology, lithology, landuse,
rainfall, slope and groundwater level for an area.
• Generating of groundwater prospects mapping for an area.
• Recommending the groundwater management plans based on the
groundwater prospects maps developed
Objectives

6.  Naveenkumar et al., (2015)
• The objective of this study is identifying the groundwater availability for agriculture
in a part of Malaprabha river basin.
• Remote sensing data and Geographic Information System (GIS) are used to locate
potential zones for groundwater in the part of Malaprabha river basin.
• Various maps are prepared using remote sensing and ArcGIS. It determines the
influence of each parameter on the potentiality.
• Each category of a particular map is assigned ranks according to their suitability and
each parametric map is given certain weightage based on its influence on the ground
water availability.
• Higher ranks are given to most suitable category and ranks decrease as per the
decrease in suitability.
• Find that area having moderate ground water prospect zone.
Literature review

7. paper deals with the preparation of ground water potential zones for
Bengaluru urban District Karnataka.
The various thematic maps of geomorphology, geology, lineament density,
drainage density, slope and landuse/landcover (LULC) were generated using the
resourcesat data and survey of India (SOI) toposheets of scale 1:50000.
The thematic layers will be integrated using ARCGIS-10 software to identifying the
overlay analysis & yield of the ground water potential zone map of the study area.
ground water potential zones are identified in to 5 classes namely ‘good’, ‘good-
moderate’, ’moderate’ , ‘moderate-poor’ and ‘poor’.
Jeyapprabha.R et al., (2014)

8. Methodology

9. Case studies : Ground Water Prospects Zonation In Bata Valley, Himachal Pradesh, India
Satellite image of BATA VALLEY from IRS-1D of LISS-III

15. Conclusion
Remote Sensing (RS) and Geographic Information System (GIS) techniques helps.
Developing thematic maps related to geomorphology, lithology, landuse, rainfall, slope
and groundwater level for an area.
Generating of groundwater prospects mapping zones for an area.
Recommending the groundwater management plans based on the groundwater prospects
. maps developed.

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18. Thank You