Groundwater Potential Zones Mapping of Kolhapur District Using Remote Sensing and GIS

Groundwater is a highly useful and often plentiful resource. However, over-use, over-abstraction or overdraft, can cause major problems to human users and to the environment. The remote sensing data and GIS tools used for the generation of various thematic layers, for lineament map and density, land use and land cover, geomorphology, geology, drainage, drainage density, rainfall, slope, and soil texture. The weightage and rank is assigned to each layer and sub feature and classes of the thematic layers of the layer and weighted overlay technique is used to delineate the groundwater potential zones.