Hydro-Morphometric Analysis of Manair Basin for Water Resources Management

Abstract

The study identified the importance of basin attributes for water resource management using
remote sensing data and GIS techniques for Manair basin, Telangana, India. Basin
boundary, flow accumulation, flow direction, flow length, stream ordering have been
determined using hydrology tools and raster surface tools of ArcGIS 10.0. Different thematic
maps and morphometric parameters for drainage network, basin geometry, drainage texture
analysis, relief characteristics, slope, LULC have been prepared with GIS tools. It is revealed
from present study that morphometric analysis and hydrological evaluation at basin scale
using RS and GIS is more applied and precise compared to conventional techniques.