26Jul 2017

EVALUATE THE CROPPING PATTERN IN THE COMMAND AREAS USING SATELLITE REMOTE SENSING TECHNIQUES OF GODAVARI BASIN MAJOR IRRIGATION PROJECTS.

  • Rural Development Society, R&D Centre, Prestige Rai Towers, Flat No.404, B-Block, Punjagutta, Hyderabad, Telangana, and India.
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India is one among the largest irrigators of the world but, there is an increasing concern over low crop productivity, low water use efficiency and the gap between Irrigation potential created and Irrigation potential utilized. The Kadem, Nizamsagar and Sriram sagar projects located at Adilabad, Nizamabad ,Karimnagar and Warangal districts, in South Telangana, This is constructed the Godavari River basin. Remote Sensing & GIS tools were effectively employed to assess irrigated crop acreage information right up to Distributary/ Off Take(OT) level. Topography analysis is used for separation of cultivable command area (CCA) and uncommand areas. Landsat ? 8 and IRS P6 - LISS III, satellite data before construction of the Reservoir (2009-10, 2010-11) and after Construction of the Reservoir (2014-15 & 2015-16) is processed for classification of Wet & Dry crops irrigated under canal and that irrigated by other sources such as Tanks and Groundwater. The prime objective is to evaluate the cropping pattern in the command areas using satellite remote sensing techniques supplemented with field data during Rabi season of 2015 -16. It is observed that, due to the influence of urban development in some distributaries and conversion of wet crops and fallow land to ID crops there is decrease of wet crops and increase of ID crops. It is observed that GIS and RS techniques of evaluating the project performance are useful for decision making regarding the water management issues.


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[Narsimha Kota, Girija Pamu, Ravi Sanatana and M.Suresh. (2017); EVALUATE THE CROPPING PATTERN IN THE COMMAND AREAS USING SATELLITE REMOTE SENSING TECHNIQUES OF GODAVARI BASIN MAJOR IRRIGATION PROJECTS. Int. J. of Adv. Res. 5 (Jul). 1719-1725] (ISSN 2320-5407). www.journalijar.com


Dr.narsimha kota
Rural Development Society, R&D Centre,

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Article DOI: 10.21474/IJAR01/4891      
DOI URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.21474/IJAR01/4891