• Prem Prakash Dookia
• Manas Banerjee

Sustainable management of groundwater is extremely necessary for supporting domestic, agricultural and industrial activities. Although fairly distributed throughout the world, increase urbanization, high utilization in the agricultural sector and rapid industrialization resulted in depletion and degradation of these resources. Thereby to manage these resources with adequate information, Remote Sensing and GIS techniques have emerged as a very effective tool for proper assessment, monitoring and conservation of groundwater resources. In a basin area, groundwater potential mapping depends on features, like lithology, geomorphology, soil structure as well as the nature of precipitation and infiltration. In this study Uppar Odai sub-basin of the Amaravati River basin is selected for sustainable groundwater potential mapping through Geo-informatics. In this context, electrical resistivity data, geomorphology and lineaments were assessed with the help of satellite imagery for the overall configuration of aquifer zones. Further, the spatial integration, in line with ArcGIS 9.3 software, carried out to demarcate the highly, moderate and least favorable groundwater potential zones. Hence, the data obtained from GIS spatial integration validated with water level data to suggest a sustainable groundwater planning draft in this study area.

Groundwater, Remote Sensing and GIS, Electrical Resistivity Analysis, Vertical Electrical Soundings (VES), Hard rock terrain, Thematic maps, Groundwater Potential Zone

"GROUND WATER EXPLORATION, MANAGEMENT AND DEMARCATION OF POTENTIAL ZONES WITH GIS AND REMOTE SENSING TECHNIQUES IN UPPAR ODAI SUB-BASIN AREA", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 7, page no.929-938, July-2018, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1807867.pdf

"GROUND WATER EXPLORATION, MANAGEMENT AND DEMARCATION OF POTENTIAL ZONES WITH GIS AND REMOTE SENSING TECHNIQUES IN UPPAR ODAI SUB-BASIN AREA", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 7, page no. pp929-938, July-2018, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1807867.pdf