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Evaluation of groundwater monitoring network of Kodaganar River basin from Southern India using entropy

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A discrete entropy-based approach is used to assess the groundwater monitoring network that exists in Kodaganar River basin of Southern India. Since any monitoring system is essentially an information collection system, its technical design and evaluation require a quantifiable measure of information and this measure can be derived using entropy. The use of information-based measures of groundwater table shows that the existing monitoring network contains a sufficient number of wells but is not well designed for the measurement of groundwater level. Entropy-based results show that 15 wells are vital to measure regional groundwater level, not 28 wells which are being monitored effectively in this basin.

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Acknowledgments

The first author had performed this work, in part, under the BOYSCAST Fellowship funded by Department of Science and Technology (Government of India), New Delhi (Ref. No. SR/BY/A-05/2008, Date: 16–19 January 2009). The officials of PWD, Chennai provide the suitable data. The four anonymous reviewers had suggested their constructive comments to improve this article. The authors are thankful to them.

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  1. National Geophysical Research Institute (Council of Scientific and Industrial Research), Uppal Road, Hyderabad, 500 606, India

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  2. Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, 77843-2117, USA

    V. P. Singh

  3. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, 77843-2117, USA

    V. P. Singh

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Mondal, N.C., Singh, V.P. Evaluation of groundwater monitoring network of Kodaganar River basin from Southern India using entropy. Environ Earth Sci 66, 1183–1193 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12665-011-1326-z

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