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Impact of changing urban landscapes on forest degradation: A study on a part of Western Ghats, India
The current research is focused on studying the land use changes in selected sites (total area of 3488 sq. km) of the Uttara Kannada district and the impacts of urbanization of forest degradation. Topographica...
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Map** Agricultural Drought Vulnerability at a Regional Level Using GIS—A Case Study
Drought is a highly complicated yet least understood of all the other natural disasters. It is due to the lack of rain and shortfall of humidity. The existence of the farming drought’s early warning framework ...
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Assessment of the Jiadhal River Channel Shifting and Its Impact on the Land Use Land Cover
River channel shifting mainly occurs due to the river bank erosion and the deposition process. River channel shifting is widespread in floodplain areas, mainly in the alluvial plain. The alluvial river frequen...
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Surface Deformation Modelling Using C-Band SAR Data—A Case Study on Shimla Town, Himachal Pradesh, India
SAR datasets play an active role in monitoring the active deformation not only due to its high radiometric resolution, but also increased temporal resolution (12 days) and greater swath coverage. The European ...
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Sub-watershed Prioritization of Ajay River Basin for Flood Susceptibility Analysis, West Bengal, India
The lower Ajay river basin is one of major flood-prone areas of West Bengal, floods in the Ajay river occur mostly during the monsoon season. Post-independence the river has faced several major flooding, i.e.,...
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Rainfall-runoff modeling using HEC-HMS model in an ungauged Himalayan catchment of Himachal Pradesh, India
Assessment of environmental flow, that has to be maintained along a waterway to keep up health of riverine biological systems, is a key challenge in alleviating impact of establishing hydropower projects espec...
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Social and Economic Impacts of Kotropi Landslide on National Highways of Himalayas—A Case Study
The current research reveals the social and economic impacts of the 2017 Kotropi slope failure and also its impacts on social and economic activities. To estimate the landscape changes due to the landslide pre...
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Report on NRDMS: DST Sponsored 21-day (Level 2) Summer School on Mountain Disaster Management: Landslide from 9 to 29th May 2019
Geoinformatics Building Technology and Research Centre, Department of Civil Engineering, Chitkara University, Himachal Pradesh organized a “Natural Resource Database Management System—Department of Science and...
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Application of Numerical Modelling for Geomorphological Evolution and River Bank Shifting Part of Damodar River
River bank erosion is a naturally occurring process along the lower parts of the River and Delta. Constant erosion and deposition due to natural and anthropogenic causes the River to migrate constantly and cre...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Assessing and Correlating the Flow Duration Curve and Drought Index for the Environmental Flow Requirements
Environmental flow is the minimal flow required for the ecosystem for its sustainability. The environmental flow and its assessment are slowly gaining its attention throughout the world, hence there is a great...
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Application of GIS Techniques and Environmental Flow Norms to Assess Hydropower Impact on the Environment: A Case Study of Binwa and Larji Hydropower Projects in Himachal Pradesh, India
The Beas is a river in Himachal Pradesh, India which possesses substantial hydropower potentials of about 6000 Megawatts. About 18 hydropower projects targeted to generate about 3270 Megawatts are under constr...
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Agricultural Drought Assessment Using GIS: A Case Study
Agricultural drought is the shortage of water from either meteorological or hydrological sources, which in turn diminishes the irrigation water for crop production. In this period, the decline of soil moisture...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Decadal Monitoring of Coastline Shifts and Recommendation of Non-structural Protection Measures Along the Coast of Rameshwaram, Tamil Nadu, India
The shoreline is more dynamic and complex in nature. Shoreline change is induced by many factors like Littoral current, wave and riverine activities and even some times tides. Construction of coastal hard stru...
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Estimation of Environmental Flow Using Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Conservation of Fish Biodiversity
The cumulative and detailed knowledge about the present and past ecological systems is “traditional ecological knowledge” (TEK). TEK in water is to be provided for by guaranteeing environmental flow sufficienc...
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Long-Term Shoreline Change Analysis and Impact of Hard Coastal Structures on Shorelines—A Case Study of the Nagapattinam-Ramanathapuram Shoreline
Shorelines are dynamic and complex in nature and shoreline changes are induced by numerous factors such as littoral currents, waves, riverine activities and sometimes tides as well. Construction of hard coasta...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Assessment of Environmental Flow Requirements Through Rainfall-Runoff Modelling for Hydropower Project
Catchment modeling using computer-based models has been identified as an effective tool in water resources planning and management. However, physically-based distributed computer models require either high-res...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A Review of Environmental Flow Evaluation Methodologies – Limitations and Validations
The term “hydropower” clearly states that the main source for generating electricity would be “water” and this is done by tap** the flow of water from rivers and dams. The hydropower project in Himachal Prad...
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Book and Conference Proceedings
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Open AccessAssessment and distribution of water quality of Pandoh river basin (PRB), Himachal Pradesh, North India
As the surface water in northern India is the main water resource for regional economic and also supply for drinking and irrigation purposes. However, deficiency of water quality leads to serious water polluti...
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Delineation of Groundwater Potential Recharge Zone Using Remote Sensing and GIS Techniques—A Case Study of Rampur Tehsil, Shimla District, Himachal Pradesh India
The study is carried out to assess the potential sites for groundwater recharge in Rampur Tehsil, Shimla district, Himachal Pradesh. The Weighted Overlay Model (WOM) in Geographic Information System (GIS) envi...
