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The project revolves around the application of GIS and remote sensing based technologies for watershed management project. The project consists of use of GIS and remote sensing for determining the feasibility report for the sites selected for construction of farm ponds. The feasibility report consists of 6 parameters i.e. catchment area, slope percentage, land use type, distance from nearest second order drainage, type of land i.e. whether the land is high land, mid land or low land the most suitable being low land and the hydrological zone of that land the most suitable being discharge zone.
I have used Google Earth Pro for finding out the catchment area and slope percentage. (Rainwater, n.d.)
For finding out the distance from nearest second order drainage I have used BHUVAN 2D for finding out the distance from nearest second order drainage. For finding out the land use I have used Google earth pro which helped me get an idea about the land use type. Field visit was a suitable medium to find out land type and hydrological zone for the pond construction sites. After determining the feasibility for the pond sites they have been depicted on a web map using Google My Maps.
The next task assigned is use of GIS in watershed creation in the Kolhan region of Jharkhand. For watershed creation watershed delineation is the proposed method.
Post watershed delineation the land use and land cover for the watershed delineated region is derived. I have downloaded the Land Use and Land cover for the region from ESRI LULC websites. Drainage map has also been created for the region. Choropleth maps have been created to show the population of the region.
Village map has also been created for the region.
