This volume advances the scientific understanding, development, and application of geospatial technologies related to groundwater resource management, mapping, monitoring, and modelling using up-to-date remote sensing and GIS techniques. The book further provides a critical analysis of the debates and discourses surrounding groundwater resources and society, illustrates the relationship between groundwater resources and precision agriculture for societal development, and describes novel, region-specific management strategies and techniques for sustainability with case studies. The book is organized into three parts: (I) Groundwater resources and societal development; (II) Groundwater availability, quality and pollution; and (III) Sustainable groundwater resources management. Each section begins with a short introduction that includes an overview of the papers in that section. Individual chapters focus on the core themes of research and knowledge along with some topics that have received lesser attention. The book will be of interest to water resource planners and decision-makers, academic researchers, policy makers, NGOs, and academic researchers and students in Geography, Geophysics, Hydrology, Remote Sensing & GIS, Agriculture, Soil Science, and Agronomy.
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Part I Groundwater Resources and Societal Development |
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1 Introduction to Groundwater and Society: Applications of Geospatial Technology |
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2 Groundwater and Society in India: Challenging Issues and Adaptive Strategies |
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3 Groundwater Research and Societal Development: Integration with Remote Sensing and Geographical Information System |
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4 Geospatial and Geophysical Approaches for Assessment of Groundwater Resources in an Alluvial Aquifer of India |
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5 Groundwater and Space Technology: Issues and Challenges |
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Part II Groundwater Availability, Quality and Pollution |
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6 Groundwater Quality Through Multi-Criteria-Based GIS Analysis: Village Level Assessment |
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7 Analysis of Groundwater Potentiality Zones of Siliguri Urban Agglomeration Using GIS-Based Fuzzy-AHP Approach |
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8 Assessing the Groundwater Potentiality of the Gumani River Basin, India, using Geoinformatics and Analytical Hierarchy Process |
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9 Application of AHP for Groundwater Potential Zones Mapping in Plateau Fringe Terrain: Study from Western Province of West Bengal |
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10 Performance of Frequency Ratio Approach for Mapping of Groundwater Prospect Areas in an Area of Mixed Topography |
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11 Artificial Neural Network for Identification of Groundwater Potential Zones in Part of Hugh District, West Bengal, India |
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12 Multi-criteria Analysis for Groundwater Quality Assessment: A Study in Paschim Barddhaman District of West Bengal, India |
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13 Performance of WQI and HPI for Groundwater Quality Assessment: Study from Sangramgarh Colliery of West Burdwan District, West Bengal, India |
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14 Assessment of Groundwater Quality Interaction Using One-Decade Data: A Case Study from a Hard Rock Area |
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15 Fluoride Dynamics in Precambrian Hard Rock Terrain of North Singhbhum Craton and Effect of Fluorosis on Human Health and Society |
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16 Coastal Aquifer Vulnerability for Saltwater Intrusion: A Case Study of Chennai Coast Using GALDIT Model and Geoinformatics |
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Part III Sustainable Groundwater Resources Management |
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17 Watershed Development Impact on Natural Resources: Groundwater and Surface Water Utilization |
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18 Long-Term Groundwater Behaviour Over an Agriculturally Developed State of North-West India: Trend and Impact on Agriculture |
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19 Spatial Appraisals of Groundwater Recharge Potential Zone Identification Using Remote Sensing and GIS |
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20 Spatial Mapping of Groundwater Depth to Prioritize the Areas Under Water Stress in Rayalaseema Region of Andhra Pradesh, India |
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21 Exploring Vulnerability of Groundwater Using AHP and GIS Techniques: A Study in Cooch Behar District, West Bengal, India |
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22 Applicability of Geospatial Technology, Weight of Evidence, and Multilayer Perceptron Methods for Groundwater Management: A Geoscientific Study on Birbhum District, West Bengal, India |
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23 Water Resource Management in Semi-arid Purulia District of West Bengal, in the Context of Sustainable Development Goals |
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Dr. Pravat Kumar Shit is an Assistant Professor at the PG Department of Geography, Raja N. L. Khan Womens College (Autonomous), West Bengal, India. He received his M.Sc & Ph.D. degrees in Geography from Vidyasagar University and PG Diploma in Remote Sensing & GIS from Sambalpur University. His research interests include applied geomorphology, soil erosion, groundwater, forest resources, wetland ecosystem, environmental contaminants & pollution, and natural resources mapping & modeling. He has published eight books (six books in Springer) and more than 60 papers in peer-reviewed journals. He is currently the editor of the GIScience and Geo-environmental Modelling (GGM) Book Series, Springer-Nature.
Dr. Gouri Sankar Bhunia received a Ph.D. from the University of Calcutta, India in 2015. His Ph.D. dissertation work focused on environmental control measures of infectious disease using Geospatial technology. His research interests include environmental modelling, risk assessment, natural resources mapping and modelling, data mining and information retrieval using Geospatial technology. Dr. Bhunia is associate editor and on the editorial boards of three international journal in Health GIS and Geosciences. Dr. Bhunia has published more than 70 articles in various journals indexed in Scopus.
Dr. Partha Pratim Adhikary is a Senior Scientist at ICAR-Indian Institute of Water Management, Bhubaneswar, India. He obtained his Ph.D. in Agricultural Physics from ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, India. His research interests include solute transport, soil and water conservation and management, pedotransfer functions, and geospatial modeling of natural resources. Dr. Adhikary has published more than 70 research papers in peer reviewed journals and three books. His other publications include book chapters, popular articles, technology brochures, technical bulletins and scientific reports. He is the associate editor of Indian Journal of Soil Conservation. Currently, he is the editor of Springer-Nature book series GIScience and Geo-environmental Modelling.
Dr. Ch. Jyotiprava Dash is a Scientist at ICAR-Indian Institute of Soil and Water Conservation, Research Centre, Sunabeda, Koraput, Odisha, India. She obtained her Ph.D. in Agricultural Engineering with specialization in Soil and Water Conservation Engineering from ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, India. She has experience of more than 10 years on research, training and extension in the field of Soil and Water conservation, Watershed Management, Geostatistics, Surface and Groundwater Modeling, Remote Sensing and GIS. Dr. Dash has been bestowed with many awards and fellowships by many professional academic societies and Government bodies for her contributions to science and society. She has published more than 50 research papers in peer reviewed journals and two books.
