Showing papers in "Aquatic Procedia in 2015"

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss briefly about variable infiltration capacity model (VIC), TOPMODEL, HBV, MIKESHE and soil and water assessment tool (SWAT) model.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors reviewed the various quality metrics available in the literature, for assessing the quality of fused image, and evaluated the performance of the fused image by two variants such as with reference image and without reference image.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors presented the use of artificial neural network (ANN) technique to estimate the dissolved oxygen (DO) concentrations at the downstream of Mathura city, India, located at the bank of River Yamuna in the state of Uttar Pradesh, India.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyzed the vegetation stress in the Raichur district with the calculation of NDVI values and the land surface temperature (LST) using the MODIS data.

TL;DR: In this article, the harmful effects of various substances on the marine environment were reviewed by collecting and studying the relevant literature and various sources for the pollution of marine environment are identified and the causes for the same are understood.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors attempted to study various morphological characteristics and to implement Geographical Information System (GIS) and Multi Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) through Fuzzy Analytical Hierarchy Process (FAHP) techniques for identification of critical sub watersheds situated in transaction zone between mountainous and water scarcity region of kallar watershed, Tamil Nadu.

TL;DR: In this paper, an attempt was made to elucidate the accreting and eroding sites from multi-temporal satellite images of Tamil Nadu coast (1978 to 2014) using geospatial techniques coupled with United States Geological Survey Digital Shoreline Analysis System (USGS DSAS).

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used Remote Sensing (RS) and Geographic Information System (GIS) techniques to estimate the annual soil loss using USLE model for Kulhan watershed of Shivnath basin, sub-basin of Mahanadi basin, Chhattisgarh using RS and GIS techniques.

TL;DR: In this article, an automatic shoreline detection method using histogram equalization and adaptive thresholding techniques is developed, where the delineated shorelines have been analyzed using Digital Shoreline Analysis System (DSAS), a GIS Software tool for estimation of shoreline change rates through two statistical techniques such as, End Point Rate (EPR) and Linear Regression Rate (LRR).

TL;DR: The suitability of groundwater quality of 22 wells located in the rural areas surrounding Ingaldhal defunct copper mine in Chithradurga district of Karnataka state was assessed for drinking purpose based on the various water quality parameters.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors study the role played by ports in the development of a nation and study the impact of ports in terms of economic and regional balanced development, as well as having a great influence on national integration to the world economic market.

TL;DR: In this article, the total water requirement of crops in agro-ecological units (AEUs) of Palakkad district of humid tropical Kerala computed with CROPWAT 80 using the meteorological parameters.

TL;DR: In this paper, the standardized precipitation index (SPI) method is used for observing and describing drought based on forty (40) year precipitation data of Surat district and compare with the actual drought of the station.

TL;DR: In this article, the effects of initial oil properties on its behavior, immediately after the spill, were analyzed using Runge-Kutta fourth order method to solve spreading, evaporation, dissolution and emulsification OWP simultaneously.

TL;DR: In this paper, a study has been conducted to detect the changes in water body extent during the period of 2002 to 2014 using various methods namely Water Ratio Index (WRI), Normalised Difference Water Index (NDWI), Modified Normalized Difference Water index (MNDWI) and supervised classification and wetness component of K-T transformation and the results are presented.

TL;DR: Application of different soft computing classification techniques for crop mapping which is necessary for estimating crop water requirements with the help of satellite images is reviewed.

TL;DR: An overview of the development of the numerical wave modelling techniques that are used is presented in this article, where development of numerical models, uses and steps taken to improve the accuracy of their numerical models are discussed.

TL;DR: In this paper, a detailed morphometric analysis was carried out using ARC-GIS for Manchanabele reservoir and Nellegudde reservoir catchment of Arkavati river system.

TL;DR: In this paper, various offshore energy applications are explored and potential of solar energy to substitute conventional oil and gas fuels for these applications are explained, and Marine pollution on account of use of fossil fuel and its devastating consequences on sea creatures also reviewed.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors presented the results of seepage and stability analyses of the considered earth dam using finite element method and showed that increase in the Young's modulus of core and shell resulted in the decrease of the maximum crest displacement and the variation in angle of internal friction plays a vital role in fulfilment of the overall stability criteria.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used Canna x generalis reeds to remove contaminants from secondary wastewater of NMAM Institute of Technology (NMAMIT), Nitte, Udupi District, India.

TL;DR: Saaty's AHP based Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA) as discussed by the authors is a powerful tool that analyzes problems which depend on a number of spatially distributed complex criteria.

TL;DR: In this paper, an adaptive Neuro fuzzy inference system (ANFIS) was proposed for the prediction of water quality in Brahmani River, where the parameters are uncorrelated using principal component analysis with varimax rotation.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used the statistical significance at 95% confidence level as per Mann-Kendall and Sen's slope estimator for drought trend analysis over the Upper Krishna basin in Maharashtra.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors derived an empirical relationship to estimate soil water retention curve from saturated hydraulic conductivity and showed that the developed relationship are reasonably useful to get the soil moisture retention curve for the soils of agricultural and forested hillslopes of the region under consideration.

TL;DR: In this article, a typical south Indian agricultural village, Yagachi of Belur in Karnataka having visible change in land cover was pinned down for study and various change detection approaches implemented in MATLAB environment.

TL;DR: The review paper presents an introduction to these techniques and discusses their applications in modelling Rainfall-Runoff relations which to some extent have replaced time consuming conventional mathematical techniques with wiser and time saving computing tools.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors evaluated the economic value of water as related to recreational use at the Pilikula Lake, Mangalore, India using Travel Cost Method (TCM) and Contingent Valuation Method (CVM).

TL;DR: In this paper, a support vector machine is employed to remote sensing image classification in order to detect marine oil spill in satellite images. And the simulation of the Dalian oil spill event is verified.

TL;DR: In this paper, electrical resistivity profiles were interpreted qualitatively and quantitatively to obtain nature and thickness of different resistivity layers and the depth to fresh-saline water interface was delineated from resistivity model.