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Watershed or catchment area is the part of a drainage basin on the earth’s surface and offers a significant geo-hydrological unit which drains into a small or medium or large river. Watershed management is a significant constituent for sustainable management and development of natural resources and is the process of formulation carrying out a course of action that involves modification in the natural system of watershed to achieve specific objectives. The study area involves five small watersheds of Kasai upper catchment area and comprises a micro level study of the morphometric and geometric characteristics of the watersheds and subsequent correlation and association with land use and land cover categories to show the spatial arrangement of drainage network and distribution of land use and land cover categories. The major characteristics and identity of morphometric and geometric attributes of the studied part of the basin have been derived by using SOI Topographical maps and RS Images which have been processed and represented by GIS platform. It has been enlighten that Morphometric and shape parameters (Variables) of the Physical components are directly influencing the parameters of the land use components, that is, human and development activities are smoothly activated in the physically favourable areas, whereas, due to rugged and non-favourable environmental condition human activities are not well established in the respective areas of studied watersheds. Separate management practices are needed where rugged physical environment is the major constraints of development and needs special priority for sustainable management.
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Kar, A., Chakraborty, S. (2022). Morphometric Attributes and Land Cover–Land Use: A Correlation and Association for an Interactive Analysis on Integrated Watershed Development in the Upper Kasai Basin, West Bengal, India. In: Islam, A., Das, P., Ghosh, S., Mukhopadhyay, A., Das Gupta, A., Kumar Singh, A. (eds) Fluvial Systems in the Anthropocene. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-11181-5_12
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