Geospatial Modeling of Rain Fall Distribution and Ground Water Fluctuation Using GIS: A Case Study for Hard Rock Terrain of Upper Ponniyar Watershed, Tamil Nadu, India

Authors

  • S. Arunachalam Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, KPR Institute of Engineering and Technology, Coimbatore - 641 407, Tamil Nadu, India
  • R. Sakthivel Assistant Professor, Department of Geology, Bharathidasan University, Thiruchirappalli - 620 024, Tamil Nadu, India
  • J. Raja Murugadoss Professor and Head, Department of Civil Engineering, KPR Institute of Engineering and Technology, Coimbatore - 641 407, Tamil Nadu, India

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.51983/tarce-2014.3.1.2205

Keywords:

Groundwater fluctuation, Rainfall, Spatial interpolation, GIS

Abstract

Ground water is an important natural source of drinking water for many people around the world. Further it is considered to be an essential element to maintain a proper balance between ground water fluctuation and rainfall distribution. Due to irrigation, urbanization and industrialization, the ground water level has declined to a larger extend. Hence in the present work an attempt has been made to analyse the groundwater fluctuation by taking the upper Ponniyar watershed as a study area using geographical information system (GIS). Also a correlative study has been made between the rainfall distribution and ground water fluctuation during the period from 1992 to 2012.

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05-05-2014

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Arunachalam, S., Sakthivel, R., & Raja Murugadoss, J. (2014). Geospatial Modeling of Rain Fall Distribution and Ground Water Fluctuation Using GIS: A Case Study for Hard Rock Terrain of Upper Ponniyar Watershed, Tamil Nadu, India. The Asian Review of Civil Engineering, 3(1), 1–7. https://doi.org/10.51983/tarce-2014.3.1.2205

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Vol. 3 No. 1 (2014): January-June 2014

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