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The Drainage network analysis of river basin found to be helpful in offering a quantitative description of the existing drainage network, which play a key role in any hydrological analysis such as groundwater potential assessment, watershed planning and environmental management. In the present study Geographical Information System (GIS) and Remote Sensing (RS) techniques are applied for identification of morphological features of the drainage in the Naina–Gorma Basin. The study deals with analysis of linear and areal aspects of the drainage basin. The drainage network was classified according to Strahler’s system of classification and it reveals that the basin has mainly sub-dendritic to dendritic type of drainage pattern. It is observed that the drainage density value is low i.e. 1.64 in the basin region which indicates that the basin has highly permeable subsoil and having thick vegetative cover leading to good groundwater potentials in the study region.
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Singh, V., Sinha, L.K., Bhavani, A.G. (2019). Application of GIS and Remote Sensing Technique in Drainage Network Analysis: A Case Study of Naina–Gorma Basin of Rewa District, M.P., India. In: Rao, P., Rao, K., Kubo, S. (eds) Proceedings of International Conference on Remote Sensing for Disaster Management. Springer Series in Geomechanics and Geoengineering. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-77276-9_36
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