Case Studies in Geospatial Applications to Groundwater Resources

Advances the scientific understanding, development, and application of geospatial technologies related to water resource management

Pravat Kumar Shit (Edited by), Gouri Sankar Bhunia (Edited by), Partha Pratim Adhikary (Edited by)

9780323999632, Elsevier Science

Paperback / softback, published 26 October 2022

432 pages, 160 illustrations (40 in full color)
23.5 x 19 x 2.7 cm, 0.88 kg

Case Studies in Geospatial Applications to Groundwater Resources provides thorough the most up-to-date techniques in GIS and geostatistics as they relate to groundwater, through detailed case studies that prove real-world applications of remote sensing applications to this subject. Groundwater is the primary source of fresh water in many parts of the world, while come regions are becoming overly dependent on it, consuming groundwater faster than it is naturally replenished and causing water tables to decline unremittingly. India is the largest user of groundwater in the world followed by China and the USA, with developing countries using groundwater at an unsustainable rate. Systematic planning of groundwater usage using modern techniques is essential for the proper utilization, management and modeling of this precious but shrinking natural resource. With the advent of powerful and highspeed personal computers, efficient techniques for water management have evolved, of which remote sensing, GIS (Geographic Information Systems), GPS (Global Positioning Systems) and Geostatistical techniques are of great significance. This book advances the scientific understanding, development, and application of geospatial technologies related to water resource management.

Part I: GIScience and Geostatistical Techniques
1. Principles of GIScience and Geostatistics
2. Spatial variability, semivariogram and kriging
3. Geostatistical Simulation and Groundwater
4. Groundwater and Internet of Things (IoT)
5. Groundwater Modeling with Machine Learning Techniques
6. Soft computing and Groundwater
7. GeoComputation and Groundwater
8. GIScience Application for Groundwater Resources Management and Decision Support

Part II: Geospatial Mapping, Monitoring, and Modelling of Groundwater Resources
9. Field-based monitoring of groundwater 10. Satellite-based monitoring of groundwater resources
11. GIS-based estimates of groundwater
12. Spatial Prediction of Arsenic Contamination and its impact on plant and human
13. Geovisualization of Fluoride Contamination and its impact on plant and human
14. Spatial Variability of Heavy metal Contamination and its impact on plant and human
15. Groundwater Contamination related to Seawater Intrusion
16. Groundwater quality in relation with urbanization
17. Groundwater contaminations and climate change

Part III: Application of Geospatial Techniques for Sustainable Groundwater Development
18. Groundwater development through watershed management
19. River basin management
20. Agricultural water management
21. Propagation and spatial distribution of drought in a groundwater catchment
22. Communality based peoples’ participation in groundwater management
23. Groundwater irrigation: trends and regional imbalances
24. Groundwater prediction using artificial neural networks
25. Open source data and software for groundwater management
26. Recent trends in groundwater resources management and land use planning

Subject Areas: Enterprise software [UFL], Geographical information systems [GIS & remote sensing RGW], Earth sciences [RB]