Development of Digital Elevation Model for Storm -Water Modeling for Deltaic Regions of Thanjavur Suburbs of Southern India
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International Journal of Civil Engineering and Technology (IJCIET) Volume 10, Issue 04, April 2019, pp. 193-201. Article ID: IJCIET_10_04_021 Available online at http://iaeme.com/Home/issue/IJCIET?Volume=10&Issue=4 ISSN Print: 0976-6308 and ISSN Online: 0976-6316 © IAEME Publication Scopus Indexed DEVELOPMENT OF DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL FOR STORM -WATER MODELING FOR DELTAIC REGIONS OF THANJAVUR SUBURBS OF SOUTHERN INDIA Sivasamandy. R Assistant Professor, Centre for Environmental Engineering, PRIST (Deemed to be University), Thanjavur Jose Ravindra Raj. B Assistant Professor, Department for Civil Engineering, PRIST (Deemed to be University), Thanjavur. Aravind. S, Nithin. S, Niraj prabhu. R, Sivabalan. S, Sakthi dharmadurai. S Department of Civil Engineering, PRIST (Deemed to be University), Thanjavur. Ashutosh Das Director, Centre for Environmental Engineering, PRIST (Deemed to be University), Thanjavur. ABSTRACT The frequent monsoon fluctuation in the coastal region of Thanjavur city of Tamil Nadu, which is known to be the rice bowl of southern India, has been imparting increasing insecurity in the yield of the crops, but even the very living conditions of the population, who are mostly dependent on agriculture. Road-expansion (NH-67) of the recent years involving mass-removal of thousands of trees located at the roadside have led to micro-climatic variation over the years. Since most of the agricultural land of the area depends on the irrigation as well as water from canals of Cauvery river, the precipitation (with respect to quantity, duration, and periodicity) has been the lifeline of progress and sustenance of this zone. To track the baseline morphological and lithological regimes of Thanjavur city of Tamil Nadu (India) precisely, which forms the heart of storm-water modeling, the present study was carried out. The digital elevation modeling (DEM) was developed, using the topsheet and satellite imageries so as to evaluate the basis for hydro-geological modeling. Keywords: Population, DEM, Agriculture http://iaeme.com/Home/journal/IJCIET 193 [email protected] Development of Digital Elevation Model for Storm -Water Modeling for Deltaic Regions of Thanjavur Suburbs of Southern India Cite this Article: Sivasamandy. R, Jose Ravindra Raj. B, Aravind. S, Nithin. S, Niraj prabhu. R, Sivabalan. S, Sakthi dharmadurai. S and Ashutosh Das, Development of Digital Elevation Model for Storm -Water Modeling for Deltaic Regions of Thanjavur Suburbs of Southern India, International Journal of Civil Engineering and Technology, 10(4), 2019, pp. 193-201. http://iaeme.com/Home/issue/IJCIET?Volume=10&Issue=4 1. INTRODUCTION Mapping of land use and land cover (often derived from remote sensing images taken over various temporal windows for the same region), carried out with due standardization, form a strong foundation for monitoring, modeling and even forecasting various socio-economical, hydro-geological and litho-climatic regimes of an area. (Jensen et al, 1983; Rajesh et.al, 2010; Anderson et al., 1976; Shepard, 1964; Sumathi et al., 2011). Several works have been carried out using the digital elevation model (DEM) in similar regions in south India for various purposes. Characterization of topography and drainage in Papanasam and Manimuthar watersheds of Western Ghats (Magesh et al, 2011), River Thamirabarani sub-basin in Kanyakumari District(Kaliraj et al, 2015) and Tirunelveli district (Magesh and Chandrasekar, 2014), Carbon sequestration in Eastern ghat (Ramachandran et al,2007), to estimate soil erosion in the semi-arid Andipatti Watershed (Balasubramani et al, 2015), Selvam, S., Magesh, N.S., Chidambaram, S. et al. (2015) delineation of groundwater recharge potential zones in Tuticorin district (Selvam et al,2015), Kovilpatti Municipality (Selvam et al, 2016) and Theni district (Magesh et al, 2012), sea-level rise impact prediction at Vellar–Coleroon estuarine region (Saleem Khana, 2012) and at Kanyakumari (Natesan and Parthasarathy, 2010), Landslide vulnerability mapping in Bodi-Bodimettu Ghat section of Theni district (Kannan et al,2013) and so forth. Of late, there have been development drainage network from grid-based in DEM addressing need of ruggedness of terrain to avoid flow in parallel lines along preferred directions and noise induced by presence artificial pits. (Fairfield and Leymarie, 1991),The pioneer in quantitative methods for drainage networks has been American hydraulic engineer and hydrologist Robert E. Horton (Horton, 1945; Eze and Abua, 2002 and Thorne, 2006)., which was followed by further studies on morphometric evolution of the drainage basins, based on interactions among the flows of matter and energy and the resistance of the topographical surface, which involves use of information from maps, aerial photography and/or satellite imageries and field-survey and estimation of areas, perimeters, lengths, slope gradients, drainage density and land cover can be calculated directly or through of the application of formulas and indexes (Zǎvoianu, 1985; Tucci, 1997; Zǎvoianu, 1985; Zǎvoianu, 1985; Pidwirny, 2000). The aim of this study is to explore the present land use and land cover in the city of Thanjavur (covering a total area of 38.33 sq.km), located on the east coast of Tamil Nadu.To identify the study area's DEM analysis, land use and land cover, satellite imagery was used, enhanced with ERDAS and GIS software (using supervised village level classification, focusing on four primary blocks, namely Karantattankudi, Medical College (manojipatti), Yagappanagar, and Thanjavur City. In fact, the study area includes total major land use and land coverage categories of agricultural land, built up land, water bodies, mixed plantation, scrub land, without scrubland, river sand, mangroves, aquaculture. 1.1. Study area Thanjavur City (10o 45'00 '' N to 10o 49 ' 30 ' '' N north latitude and 79o 6' 00 '' E to 79o 10 ' 30 '' E east longitude), stretched over an area of 38.33 sq.kms, is bordered by Thittai village, Palliagraharam village, Punnainallur village, Surakottai and Gandharvakkottai village. Its http://iaeme.com/Home/journal/IJCIET 194 [email protected] Sivasamandy. R, Jose Ravindra Raj. B, Aravind. S, Nithin. S, Niraj prabhu. R, Sivabalan. S, Sakthi dharmadurai. S and Ashutosh Das predominant deltaic region is irrigated by the Cauvery and its wide network of branches in northern and eastern zone, whereas southern and western regions are mostly non-deltaic, being irrigated by the help of the Grand Anaicut Canal's water resources. The location of the study area is presented in Fig. 1. 1.2. Geology Thanjavur primarily consists very thick laterite cap, which consists of impure calcareous and sandstone varieties of silt, clay - calcareous and argillaceous soil belonging to Cretaceous, Tertiary and Alluvial formations, with predominantly Alluvial and Tertiary deposits, with a small Cretaceous patch at west and southwest of Vallam alluvial deposits of Cauvery in the east, with tributaries overlying Tertiary sandstone (30 m to 400 m thick) (Fig.3) 1.3. Roads and Railways Thanjavur is well-connected by road networks with a total road length of 2014 km (including concrete, black topped metal and non metal roads), the main roads being Tiruchirapalli via Thanjavur to Nagapattinam road, Thanjavur to Thiruvaiyaru and Thanjavur to Pudukkottai. Besides, the city is connected to all taluk headquarters by well-maintained major district roads. The district is also well connected by railway network (of Southern Railways) as well, served by both meter and wide gage railways, with a total length of 151 km possessing 27 railway stations with one junction (at Thanjavur). (Fig.2) Figure 1 Location map of the Study area Thanjavur City http://iaeme.com/Home/journal/IJCIET 195 [email protected] Development of Digital Elevation Model for Storm -Water Modeling for Deltaic Regions of Thanjavur Suburbs of Southern India Figure 2 Roads and railway networks of the Thanjavur City Figure 3 Geology map of the Study Area 1.4. Rainfall – Distribution Based on distribution pattern of rainfall in the various taluks of the district of Thanjavur over a period of 70 years (1927 – 2009) (Srimathi, 2012) Orathanadu receives maximum rainfall (and the minimum at Thanjavur). In all the taluks, precipitation through North-East monsoon is almost double compared to that through South-West monsoon. During summer and winter, the precipitation is rather scanty (Fig.4). http://iaeme.com/Home/journal/IJCIET 196 [email protected] Sivasamandy. R, Jose Ravindra Raj. B, Aravind. S, Nithin. S, Niraj prabhu. R, Sivabalan. S, Sakthi dharmadurai. S and Ashutosh Das Figure 4 Rainfall Distribution of the Thanjavur District. 1.5. Temperature The atmospheric temperature data recorded over a 70-year period (1927 - 2009) (Srimathi, 2012) and is presented in fig.5. As indicated from the graph, the hottest period is April- June (maximum 350 to 360C) and the coldest period is November-January (minimum 230 to 240C). Figure 5 Average Temperature in the Thanjavur District 1.6. Crop Area In Thanjavur, paddy (involving three crop-types: Kuruvai, Thaladi and Samba), pulses, groundnut and sugarcane form the major crops followed by maize, soya bean, red gram, and gingelly. In fact, in the rice fallows, pulses (namely, black gram and green gram) and cash- crops (namely, cotton and gingelly) are grown.Two basic types of cropping pattern observed in the deltaic region of study area comprises of old-delta (i.e., network of River Cauvery and Vennar canals and channels) and new-delta (i.e., irrigated