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Delineation of Groundwater Potential Zones of Coastal Groundwater Basin Using Multi-Criteria Decision Making Technique

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dc.contributor.author Munusamy, Selva Balaji
dc.date.accessioned 2024-04-25T04:31:35Z
dc.date.available 2024-04-25T04:31:35Z
dc.date.issued 2016-07
dc.identifier.uri https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11269-016-1421-8
dc.identifier.uri http://dspace.bits-pilani.ac.in:8080/jspui/xmlui/handle/123456789/14668
dc.description.abstract Delineation of groundwater potential zones (GWPZ) has been performed for a coastal groundwater basin of eastern India. The groundwater potential zone index (GWPZI) map is generated by using Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) from different influencing features, e.g., Land Use/Land Cover (LU/LC), soil (S), geomorphology (GM), hydrogeology (HG), surface geology (SG), recharge rate (RR), drainage density (DD), rainfall (RF), slope (Sl), surface water bodies (SW), lineament density (LD), and Normalized Difference Vegetative Index (NDVI). Recharge rate values are estimated from hydrological water balance model. Overlay weighted sum method is used to integrate all thematic feature maps to generate GWPZ map of the study area. Four zones have been identified for the coastal groundwater basin [very good: 36.39 % (273.53 km2, good: 43.57 % (327.47 km2), moderate: 18.27 % (137.30 km2), and poor: 1.77 % (13.27 km2)]. Areas in north to south-west and south-east direction show very good GWPZ due to the presence of low drainage density. GWPZ map and well yield values show good agreement. Sensitivity analysis reveals that exclusion/absence of rainfall and lineament density increases the poor groundwater potential zones. Omission of hydrogeology, soils, surface geology, and NDVI show maximum increase in good GWPZ. Obtained GWPZ map can be utilized effectively for planning of sustainable agriculture. This analysis demonstrates the potential applicability of the methodology for a general coastal groundwater basin. en_US
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.publisher Springer en_US
dc.subject Civil Engineering en_US
dc.subject Delineation of groundwater potential zones (GWPZ) en_US
dc.subject Lineament Density (LD) en_US
dc.subject Normalized Difference Vegetative Index (NDVI) en_US
dc.title Delineation of Groundwater Potential Zones of Coastal Groundwater Basin Using Multi-Criteria Decision Making Technique en_US
dc.type Article en_US


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