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Title Geostatistics and geospatial technologies for groundwater resources in India / Partha Pratim Adhikary, Pravat Kumar Shit, Priyabrata Santra, Gouri Sankar Bhunia, Ashwani Kumar Tiwari, B.S. Chaudhary, editors
Published Cham : Springer, [2021]

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Description 1 online resource (xxv, 598 pages) : illustrations (some color)
Series Springer hydrogeology, 2364-6454
Springer hydrogeology. 2364-6454
Contents Part 1. Fundamentals of Geostatistics and Geospatial Technologies -- Chapter 1. Principles of geostatistics -- Chapter 2. Spatial variability and semivariogram theory -- Chapter 3. Kriging and its type (Ordinary krigging, co-kriging and regression kriging) -- Chapter 4. Lognormal kriging, probability kriging and Indicator kriging -- Part 2. Groundwater Availability: Exploration, depletion, Recharge and Storage -- Chapter 5. Field-based monitoring of groundwater -- Chapter 6. Satellite-based monitoring of groundwater depletion
Summary This book offers essential information on geospatial technologies for water resource management and highlights the latest GIS and geostatistics techniques as they relate to groundwater. Groundwater is inarguably India's single most important natural resource. It is the foundation of millions of Indian farmers' livelihood security and the primary source of drinking water for a vast majority of Indians in rural and urban areas. The prospects of continued high rates of growth in the Indian economy will, to a great extent, depend on how judiciously we can manage groundwater in the years to come. Over the past three decades, India has emerged as by far the single largest consumer of groundwater in the world. Though groundwater has made the country self-sufficient in terms of food, we face a crisis of dwindling water tables and declining water quality. Deep drilling by tube wells, which was once part of the solution to water shortages, is now in danger of becoming part of the problem. Consequently, we urgently need to focus our efforts on the sustainable and equitable management of groundwater. Addressing that need, this book presents novel advances in and applications of RS-GIS and geostatistical techniques to the research community in a precise and straightforward manner
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed March 30, 2021)
Subject Groundwater -- India
Groundwater -- India -- Management
Hydrogeology -- Statistical methods
Hydrogeology -- Geographic information systems
Hydrogeology.
Water -- Pollution.
Sustainable development.
Environmental sciences.
sustainable development.
environmental sciences.
Environmental sciences
Groundwater
Groundwater -- Management
Hydrogeology
Hydrogeology -- Statistical methods
Sustainable development
Water -- Pollution
India
Genre/Form Geographic information systems
Form Electronic book
Author Adhikary, Partha Pratim, editor
Shit, Pravat Kumar, editor.
Santra, Priyabrata, editor.
Bhunia, Gouri Sankar, editor.
Tiwari, Ashwani Kumar, editor
Chaudhary, B. S., editor
ISBN 9783030623975
3030623971