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Geospatial strategy for sustainable management of municipal solid waste for growing urban environment.

Prem Chandra Pandey1, Laxmi Kant Sharma1, Mahendra Singh Nathawat1•
Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra1
01 Apr 2012-Environmental Monitoring and Assessment (Springer Netherlands)-Vol. 184, Iss: 4, pp 2419-2431
TL;DR: This paper presents the implementation of a Geospatial approach for improving the Municipal Solid Waste disposal suitability site assessment in growing urban environment using Multi Criteria Geographical Information System and Remote Sensing for selection of suitable disposal sites.
Abstract: This paper presents the implementation of a Geospatial approach for improving the Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) disposal suitability site assessment in growing urban environment. The increasing trend of population growth and the absolute amounts of waste disposed of worldwide have increased substantially reflecting changes in consumption patterns, consequently worldwide. MSW is now a bigger problem than ever. Despite an increase in alternative techniques for disposing of waste, land-filling remains the primary means. In this context, the pressures and requirements placed on decision makers dealing with land-filling by government and society have increased, as they now have to make decisions taking into considerations environmental safety and economic practicality. The waste disposed by the municipal corporation in the Bhagalpur City (India) is thought to be different from the landfill waste where clearly scientific criterion for locating suitable disposal sites does not seem to exist. The location of disposal sites of Bhagalpur City represents the unconsciousness about the environmental and public health hazards arising from disposing of waste in improper location. Concerning about urban environment and health aspects of people, a good method of waste management and appropriate technologies needed for urban area of Bhagalpur city to improve this trend using Multi Criteria Geographical Information System and Remote Sensing for selection of suitable disposal sites. The purpose of GIS was to perform process to part restricted to highly suitable land followed by using chosen criteria. GIS modeling with overlay operation has been used to find the suitability site for MSW.

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Monitoring land use/cover change using remote sensing and GIS techniques: A case study of Hawalbagh block, district Almora, Uttarakhand, India

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J. S. Rawat1, Manish Kumar1•
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors highlighted the importance of digital change detection techniques for nature and location of change of the Hawalbagh block in district Almora, Uttarakhand, India.

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  • ...Pandey et al. (2012) presented the implementation of a Geospatial approach for improving the Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) disposal suitability site assessment in growing urban environment....

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Predicting Spatial and Decadal LULC Changes Through Cellular Automata Markov Chain Models Using Earth Observation Datasets and Geo-information

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Sudhir Kumar Singh1, Sk. Mustak2, Prashant K. Srivastava3, Prashant K. Srivastava4, Szilárd Szabó5, Tanvir Islam6, Tanvir Islam7 •
Allahabad University1, Pandit Ravishankar Shukla University2, University of Maryland, College Park3, Goddard Space Flight Center4, University of Debrecen5, Colorado State University6, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration7
07 Feb 2015-Environmental Processes
TL;DR: In this article, the authors used remote sensing and GIS tools for studying land use/land cover change and integrating the associated driving factors for deriving useful outputs. And they used the CA-Markov Chain Model (CAMCM) to identify the spatial and temporal changes that have occurred in LULC in this area.
Abstract: Remote sensing and GIS are important tools for studying land use/land cover (LULC) change and integrating the associated driving factors for deriving useful outputs. This study is based on utilization of Earth observation datasets over the highly urbanized Allahabad district in India. Allahabad district has experienced intense change in LULC in the last few decades. To monitor the changes, advanced techniques in remote sensing and GIS, such as Cellular Automata (CA)-Markov Chain Model (CAMCM) were used to identify the spatial and temporal changes that have occurred in LULC in this area. Two images, 1990 and 2000, were used for calibration and optimization of the Markovian algorithm, while 2010 was used for validating the predictions of CA-Markov using the ground based land cover image. After validating the model, plausible future LULC changes for 2020 were predicted using the CAMCM. Analysis of the LULC pattern maps, achieved through classification of multi-temporal satellite datasets, indicated that the socio-economic and biophysical factors have greatly influenced the growth of agricultural lands and settlements in the area. The two urbanization indicators calculated in this study viz. Land Consumption Ratio (LCR) and Land Absorption Coefficient (LAC) were also used, which indicated a drastic change in the area in terms of urbanization. The predicted LULC scenario for year 2020 provides useful inputs to the LULC planners for effective and pragmatic management of the district and a direction for an effective land use policy making. Further suggestions for an effective policy making are also provided which can be used by government officials to protect this important land resource.

235 citations

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  • ...In this study, an integrated approach was applied to reach the following objectives: (i) to analyze the temporal and spatial changes in the study area in 1990–2000–2010; (ii) to simulate and predict land use change for years 2010 and 2020 based on CAMCM to preserve the unique natural characteristics; (iii) to provide values for two urban indicators, LCR and LAC....

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  • ...LAC changed from 0.00621 to 0.00009 and from 0.00009 to 0.00018 between periods 1990–2000 and 2000–2010, respectively (with respect to the built up area), whereas LCR changed from 0.00011 to 0.00013 and from 0.00013 to 0.00012 between periods 1990–2000 and 2000–2010, respectively (with respect to the built up area), which shows how changes are governing in the study area....

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  • ...The changes in the LAC and LCR values are shown in Table 10....

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  • ...Two different indices are used for measuring urban expansions: LCR and LAC (Sharma et al. 2012; Pandey et al. 2012; Kumar et al. 2013)....

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  • ...3.5 LCR and LAC with urbanization The annual population growth (n) and estimated population (Pn) was also calculated (Table 9)....

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Prioritization of Malesari mini-watersheds through morphometric analysis: a remote sensing and GIS perspective

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Dhruvesh P. Patel, Chintan A. Gajjar, Prashant K. Srivastava1•
University of Bristol1
01 Aug 2013-Environmental Earth Sciences
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors proposed a morphometric analysis and prioritization of ten mini-watersheds of Malesari watershed, situated in Bhavnagar district of Saurashtra region of Gujarat state, India.
Abstract: Geographical information system and remote sensing are proven to be an efficient tool for locating water harvesting structures by prioritization of mini-watersheds through morphometric analysis. In this study, the morphometric analysis and prioritization of ten mini-watersheds of Malesari watershed, situated in Bhavnagar district of Saurashtra region of Gujarat state, India, are studied. For prioritization of mini-watersheds, morphometric analysis is utilized by using the linear parameters such as bifurcation ratio, drainage density, stream frequency, texture ratio, and length of overland flow and shape parameters such as form factor, shape factor, elongation ratio, compactness constant, and circularity ratio. The different prioritization ranks are assigned after evaluation of the compound factor. Digital elevation model from Shuttle Radar Topography Mission, digitized contour, and other thematic layers like drainage order, drainage density, and geology are created and analyzed over ArcGIS 9.1 platform. Combining all thematic layers with soil and slope map, the best feasibility of positioning check dams in mini-watershed has been proposed, after validating the sites through the field surveys.

152 citations

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  • ...It is an effective tool for integration of spatial data to derive useful outputs and for modeling (Gupta and Srivastava 2010; Srivastava et al. 2010; Pandey et al. 2012; Srivastava et al. 2012b, d; Thakur et al. 2012)....

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Multi-criteria decision making to support waste management: A critical review of current practices and methods:

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Lineker Max Goulart Coelho1, Lineker Max Goulart Coelho2, Liséte Celina Lange2, Hosmanny Mg Coelho2•
Universidade Federal de Viçosa1, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais2
01 Jan 2017-Waste Management & Research
TL;DR: A literature review of multi-criteria decision-making applications used in solid waste management is presented, to offer a critical assessment of the current practices, and provide suggestions for future works.

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Morphometric analysis of Upper Tons basin from Northern Foreland of Peninsular India using CARTOSAT satellite and GIS

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Sandeep Kumar Yadav1, Sudhir Kumar Singh1, Manika Gupta2, Prashant K. Srivastava3•
Allahabad University1, Indian Institutes of Technology2, University of Bristol3
17 Jan 2014-Geocarto International
TL;DR: In this paper, a morphometric analysis of river basin helps to explore the interrelationship between hydraulic parameters and geomorphologic characteristics and the study has been conducted in the Upper Tons basin of Northern Foreland of Peninsular India.
Abstract: The morphometric analysis of river basin helps to explore the interrelationship between hydraulic parameters and geomorphologic characteristics. The study has been conducted in the Upper Tons basin of Northern Foreland of Peninsular India. The river basin has been characterized using the topographical maps, CARTOSAT satellite image integrated using the GIS techniques. The drainage density analysis indicates lower values in the north-eastern regions and thus these regions can be categorized as better ground water potential zone. There are in total 10 sub-watersheds which have been delineated; SW-4 has maximum drainage density (4.75), stream frequency (5.61) and drainage texture (26.64) followed by SW-6–10. The prioritized sub-watershed numbers SW-4 and SW-6–10 need conservation practices because of their high erodibility and run-off. SW-1–3 and SW-5 regions have better permeable bed rocks and hence good for water harvesting. The areal parameter indicates elongated shape of basin and moderate to steeper gro...

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  • ...…the ability to generate, manipulate, store and process the spatial data very fast and provide high quality output (Srivastava et al. 2008; Sharma et al. 2012; Srivastava et al. 2012d) and efficiently integrate thematic layers for geospatial perspective (Pandey et al. 2012; Srivastava et al. 2013)....

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  • ...2012d) and efficiently integrate thematic layers for geospatial perspective (Pandey et al. 2012; Srivastava et al. 2013)....

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Ni-Bin Chang1, G. Parvathinathan2, Jeff B. Breeden2•
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01 Oct 2006-International Journal of Environmental Science and Technology
TL;DR: In this paper, a multi-criteria evaluation (MCE) method called weighted linear combination (WLC) was used to evaluate the suitability of the study region for landfill.
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E. Daskalopoulos1, O. Badr1, S.D. Probert1•
Cranfield University1
01 Nov 1998-Resources Conservation and Recycling
TL;DR: In this article, a model linking RTCE to GDP has been developed and utilised to estimate the amounts of the individual fractions in the total municipal solid waste (MSW) generated.
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Jehng-Jung Kao, Hung Yue Lin1•
National Chiao Tung University1
01 Oct 1996-Journal of Environmental Engineering
TL;DR: In this paper, a siting model for raster-based GIS is proposed to locate an optimal site when compactness and other factors are simultaneously considered, and a mixed-integer programming model is developed to obtain a site with optimal compactness.
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Assessment of land consumption rate with urban dynamics change using geospatial techniques

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Laxmi Kant Sharma1, Prem Chandra Pandey1, Mahendra Singh Nathawat1•
Birla Institute of Technology and Science1
01 Jun 2012-Journal of Land Use Science
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