Impact of Land use/land cover change on groundwater quality of Purba Bardhaman District using applied remote sensing and GIS technique

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Authors

Subhasish Sutradhar¹ , Prolay Mondal¹

1. Raiganj University

Conference / event

ISRS-ISG National Symposium 2020, December 2020 (Virtual)

Poster summary

The study assessed the impact of land use and land cover changes on groundwater quality in the Purba Bardhaman district of West Bengal. The findings revealed that abrupt changes in settlement growth and vegetation decreases negatively affected groundwater quality. The study found that built-up areas, open land, and vegetation cover have increased, indicating that groundwater chemical components have crossed WHO's permissible limits.

Keywords

Land use/land cover, Groundwater quality, Purba Bardhaman, Remote sensing, GIS

Research areas

Remote Sensing, Geography, Environmental Sciences, Earth Sciences

References

1. Magesh, N., Chandrasekar, N., & Soundranayagam, J. (2012) Delineation of groundwater potential zones in Theni district, Tamil Nadu, using remote sensing, GIS and MIF techniques. Geoscience Frontiers, v. 3(2), pp. 189-196. doi: 10.1016/j.gsf.2011.10.007
2. Venkateswaran, S., & Ayyandurai, R. (2015) Groundwater Potential Zoning in Upper Gadilam River Basin Tamil Nadu. Aquatic Procedia,v. 4, pp. 1275-1282. doi: 10.1016/j.aqpro.2015.02.166

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Competing interests

No competing interests were disclosed.

Data availability statement

Data sharing not applicable to this poster as no datasets were generated or analyzed during the current study.

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