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Database integration of hydro geological characteristic using remote sensing & GIS
Abhishek Kumar Ayachi
A/C 213 (Asha deep), Aghaya Nagar
Bilaspur, Chattisgarh, India
Email: bharatayachi@yahoo.com
Introduction
The need for water resource management has widely been recognized as the ever-increasing population leads to pressure on the available resources, and leads to their depletion and degradation. Resources degradation through erosion of valuable layer of the earth surface, changes in flow regimes of rivers and other phenomena are frequently worst events faced by the present day world. To date, however, the management of water resources seems to have had only a limited impact in abating these adverse processes. The lack of adequate information, databases and proper documentation are few of the reasons for its limited impact. It is in relation to this that discussions on information systems to support resource management were initiated.
The role of information scheme for water resource management the perspective of the user is an ardent needs. This approach is thought to be essential, as the use of the information can bring about a sea change in the complex equations accessing demand and need, around us. In the present era of information age, new tools and technologies have emerged to collect, store, retrieve and analyze various types of information related to water resource management. Commercial GIS packages offer tremendous opportunity in this regard. However, very few attempts have been made so far to utilize their potential to the fullest. This is Primarily due to the fact that the relevant data is mostly considered as proprietary and lies with different organizations (in public sector and private sector -organized and unorganized) and therefore, considered as responsibility of respective organizations to prepare and maintain such databases. Secondly developing a GIS based water resource management requires a lot of investment in developing GIS infrastructure within the organization.
Present work is an attempt for planning water resource administration, based on generic principal of database management system supported by build-in Digital Image Processing and Geographical Information System capabilities. Water resource management deals with a comprehensive database of any area/watershed/river basin. Although it is developed based on the concept of remote sensing and GIS, it allows data updating, querying and report generation with Digital Image Processing and Geographical Information System capabilities.
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