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Watershed delineation in South Bengal Ganges Delta Region of Bangladesh using satellite imagery and digital elevation model
Coastal Bangladesh has experienced large scale changes in erosion and deposition in the Meghna Estuary and the big islands due to the Ganges–Brahmaputra-Meghna stream background. Also, the coastal area is prone to natural disasters almost in every year which creates a change in the ground water level, increases the surface water infltration, soil salinity, and food level. Considering these facts of the coastal area of Bangladesh, watershed delineation can contribute to proper planning and management of watershed to mitigate the surface and groundwater problems. Therefore, in this paper GIS and remote sensing techniques were used to identify the exact water course using spatial data to know the current watershed condition of the South Ganges Delta Region of Bangladesh. Here, Hydrology Toolset was utilized to analyze and identify correct watershed fow direction, network density, and confuence thresholds using digital elevation model (DEM) of the study area. The well-known D8 algorithm deployed to calculate the stream fow from each cell to its downslope neighbor and 100–1500 thresholds to determine the fow directions and transform the streams into line features for watershed network density measurement. The results showed that the length and density of the networks were proportional to the threshold. In consequence, the density of the stream network increased dramatically with the soaring of thresholds. Therefore, the results also revealed that when the convergence threshold set to 900, the extracted stream network appeared the closest to the exact water fow in the research area. It showed various sharp fows of the stream network, their length and density, as well as the convergence threshold. The fndings of this study can help to quantify the watershed basin and river fow watercourses that can contribute to plan and manage future food forecasting method of the study region.
Watershed delineation in South Bengal Ganges Delta Region of Bangladesh using satellite imagery and digital elevation model
Coastal Bangladesh has experienced large scale changes in erosion and deposition in the Meghna Estuary and the big islands due to the Ganges–Brahmaputra-Meghna stream background. Also, the coastal area is prone to natural disasters almost in every year which creates a change in the ground water level, increases the surface water infltration, soil salinity, and food level. Considering these facts of the coastal area of Bangladesh, watershed delineation can contribute to proper planning and management of watershed to mitigate the surface and groundwater problems. Therefore, in this paper GIS and remote sensing techniques were used to identify the exact water course using spatial data to know the current watershed condition of the South Ganges Delta Region of Bangladesh. Here, Hydrology Toolset was utilized to analyze and identify correct watershed fow direction, network density, and confuence thresholds using digital elevation model (DEM) of the study area. The well-known D8 algorithm deployed to calculate the stream fow from each cell to its downslope neighbor and 100–1500 thresholds to determine the fow directions and transform the streams into line features for watershed network density measurement. The results showed that the length and density of the networks were proportional to the threshold. In consequence, the density of the stream network increased dramatically with the soaring of thresholds. Therefore, the results also revealed that when the convergence threshold set to 900, the extracted stream network appeared the closest to the exact water fow in the research area. It showed various sharp fows of the stream network, their length and density, as well as the convergence threshold. The fndings of this study can help to quantify the watershed basin and river fow watercourses that can contribute to plan and manage future food forecasting method of the study region.
Watershed delineation in South Bengal Ganges Delta Region of Bangladesh using satellite imagery and digital elevation model
Karmaker, Sourav (author) / Sheikh, Shahjahan (author) / Islam, Shafiqul (Md.) (author) / Nisha, Rifat Sharmin (author)
2022-01-01
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
DDC:
624
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