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Flood risk assessment of Panchganga River (Kolhapur district, Maharashtra) using GIS-based multicriteria decision technique [1]

Flood hazard causes great loss to lives and properties leading to disturbance in human society. Flood is the single most hydrometeorological hazard causing substantial losses. To gain better understanding of the flood phenomena especially for planning and mitigation purposes, flood risk analysis is often required. For the present study, the middle part of Panchganga river of Kolhapur district, Maharashtra was selected.

Publication Date: 
25/02/2017
S. S. Panhalkar [2], Amol P. Jarag [3]
Current Science [4]
112
4
785-793
Tags:
Rivers [5], Kolhapur (D) [6], Maharashtra [7], Floods [8], Geographical Information Systems (GIS) [9], Remote Sensing [10], Natural Disasters [11]
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