TY - JOUR
T1 - Evaluating the groundwater potential of Wadi Al-Jizi, Sultanate of Oman, by integrating remote sensing and GIS techniques
AU - Akhtar, Javed
AU - Sana, Ahmed
AU - Tauseef, Syed Mohammed
AU - Chellaiah, Gajendran
AU - Kaliyaperumal, Parmeswari
AU - Sarkar, Humayun
AU - Ayyamperumal, Ramamoorthy
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2021, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature.
Funding Information:
The authors acknowledge the help of the Ministry of Defense (MOD) and Ministry of Regional Municipality and Water Resources (MRMWR), Oman, for providing required information.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2021, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature.
© 2021. The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature.
PY - 2022/1/11
Y1 - 2022/1/11
N2 - Groundwater resources are highly stressed due to their overuse, especially in the arid region. This study is aimed at discovering potential groundwater resource zones using currently available data and state-of-the-art methods. This will lead to effective management of scarcely available and rapidly depleting groundwater resources in the Wadi Al-Jizi catchment, located in the Al-Batinah region. Data on terrain characteristics, geology, and geomorphology was integrated using remote sensing techniques and geographical information system (GIS). The result from this exercise was used for the identification of areas with a high potential for groundwater availability. These areas were classified into five types, namely, excellent, good, medium, low, and very low representing 11%, 59.5%, 26%, and 3.5% of the total area, respectively. The present study shows that the integration of all the weighted parameters shows promising results in the zonation of groundwater. This study shall be useful to the decision-makers in highlighting potential drilling as well as recharge sites in the area.
AB - Groundwater resources are highly stressed due to their overuse, especially in the arid region. This study is aimed at discovering potential groundwater resource zones using currently available data and state-of-the-art methods. This will lead to effective management of scarcely available and rapidly depleting groundwater resources in the Wadi Al-Jizi catchment, located in the Al-Batinah region. Data on terrain characteristics, geology, and geomorphology was integrated using remote sensing techniques and geographical information system (GIS). The result from this exercise was used for the identification of areas with a high potential for groundwater availability. These areas were classified into five types, namely, excellent, good, medium, low, and very low representing 11%, 59.5%, 26%, and 3.5% of the total area, respectively. The present study shows that the integration of all the weighted parameters shows promising results in the zonation of groundwater. This study shall be useful to the decision-makers in highlighting potential drilling as well as recharge sites in the area.
KW - Al-Batinah
KW - GIS
KW - Geology
KW - Groundwater potential
KW - Land use
KW - Remote sensing
KW - Environmental Monitoring/methods
KW - Geographic Information Systems
KW - Groundwater
KW - Remote Sensing Technology
KW - Oman
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U2 - 10.1007/s11356-021-17848-x
DO - 10.1007/s11356-021-17848-x
M3 - Article
C2 - 35013946
AN - SCOPUS:85122875692
SN - 0944-1344
VL - 29
SP - 72332
EP - 72343
JO - Environmental Science and Pollution Research
JF - Environmental Science and Pollution Research
IS - 48
ER -
