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Efficacy of Geospatial Technologies for Groundwater Prospect Zonation in Lower Western Ghats Area of Maharashtra, India

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Geostatistics and Geospatial Technologies for Groundwater Resources in India

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The importance of groundwater potential zone (GWPZ) is a vital aspect for the society as directly or indirectly it sustains and supports the urban, crop irrigation and industrial activities. This study involves multi-parametric comparative geospatial modelling for delineation of potential groundwater zones. The Remote Sensing based and supplementary data were processed in the GIS environment to obtain the raster/vector layers of various themes such as land-slope, litho-units, stream density, lineaments, surface run off and land utilization. The thematic layers thus derived were subsequently divided into sub-criterion and suitable weights were assigned according to the degree of influence on groundwater dynamics using multi-parametric evaluation methods namely Multi-Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) and Multi-Influencing Factors (MIF). Furthermore, the outputs of both the techniques are superimposed to delineate more precise delineation of GWPZ in the study area. The validation of results reveal that the MCDM technique output map has total 160 wells i.e. around 96% falling in good—excellent zones. Whereas, MIF technique predicted 137 wells (about 83%) covering the same range, while the combination of both the techniques revealed 148 wells out of 166 wells (89%) falling in favourable zones.

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  1. Symbiosis Institute of Geoinformatics (SIG), Symbiosis International (Deemed University), Pune, India

    Sandipan Das & Mahesh Kalshetty

  2. Department of Environmental Science, Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune, India

    Ajay Kumar Kadam

  3. Department of Geology, Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune, India

    Bhavana N. Umrikar

  4. Central Water Commission, New Delhi, India

    R. N. Sankhua

  5. Department of Geology, RTM Nagpur University, Nagpur, India

    Abhay M. Varade

  6. Directorate of Geology and Mining, Government of Maharashtra, Nagpur, India

    A. P. Doad

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    Partha Pratim Adhikary

  2. Raja N. L. Khan Women’s College (Autonomous), Vidyasagar University, Medinipur, West Bengal, India

    Pravat Kumar Shit

  3. Central Arid Zone Research Institute (CAZRI), Indian Council of Agricultural Research, Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India

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  5. School of Environmental Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India

    Ashwani Kumar Tiwari

  6. Department of Geophysics, Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra, Haryana, India

    B. S. Chaudhary

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Das, S. et al. (2021). Efficacy of Geospatial Technologies for Groundwater Prospect Zonation in Lower Western Ghats Area of Maharashtra, India. In: Adhikary, P.P., Shit, P.K., Santra, P., Bhunia, G.S., Tiwari, A.K., Chaudhary, B.S. (eds) Geostatistics and Geospatial Technologies for Groundwater Resources in India. Springer Hydrogeology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-62397-5_6

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