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Impact of landuse/land cover change on run-off in a catchment of Narmada river in India

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The landuse/land cover change has a significant influence on the hydrological response of a river basin. The run-off characteristics are naturally changing due to reduction of initial abstraction that increases run-off volume. Thus, it is necessary to quantify the changes in the run-off characteristics of a catchment that occur due to changes in landuse/land cover. These changes can be sudden or continuous. Physically based conceptual models have developed to find out surface run-off, and one of the models used in the present study is the Soil Conservation Service curve number (SCS-CN) model which has a broad range of applications. The present study is on the application of the SCS-CN model to analyse the impact of various landuse/land cover change in  the run-off characteristics of a catchment of Narmada basin in Madhya Pradesh, India. The study includes the preparation of a landuse/land cover map of different years from the satellite imageries, drainage network, and development of a database by using a geographic information system (GIS) and a run-off generation with the model to estimate the impact of landuse change on run-off.

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Acknowledgments

The authors acknowledge the United States Geographical Survey (USGS) and Survey of India (SOI) for providing the Landsat satellite imagery and topographical map of the selected study area. The authors are also thankful to the Indian Meteorological Department for providing rainfall and run-off data.

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  1. Department of Water Resources Development & Management, Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, Roorkee, 247 667, India

    Deepak Khare, Diptendu Patra, Arun Mondal & Sananda Kundu

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Khare, D., Patra, D., Mondal, A. et al. Impact of landuse/land cover change on run-off in a catchment of Narmada river in India. Appl Geomat 7, 23–35 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12518-014-0148-6

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