The application of Geographic information system (GIS) in groundwater had gained momentum to an extent that its application is multi diverse. It a powerful set of tool for collection storing, retrieving, transforming and displaying spatial data for a purpose that benefits human community. This book is an attempt to integrate various aspects of application of GIS in the field of water research. The compilation of papers in this present book will help the readers to obtain an insight regarding the solution for hydrogeochemical problems using GIS as a tool for both rain and groundwater. GIS tool for soil suitability, planning and management of resource, distribution and analysis of various geochemical parameters has also brought to limelight. Applications of landuse/ landcover , morphometric analysis, buffer analysis and relation with geophysical technique has been brought out in an elegant manner, with a clear and simple style. These features make this book interesting and indispensable to the researchers and managers of the water resources in different parts of the world.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Al. Ramanathan
Al. Ramanathan, is an Associate professor in the Schools of Environmental Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru university, new Delhi, India. His research area is in the field of Hydrogeochemistry of the ground water in hard and coastal groundwater with application of computer graphics and graphics and statistical models and hydro geochemical models to ground water resource management. He has been teaching the ground water courses to PG students and research students for the past two decades. He has taught in numerous universities in India and abroad. He has guided few research students for their research degrees on ground water modeling aspects and guiding few more at present on these aspects for their research degrees from India and abroad. He has widely traveled all over the world for the advanced research work in ground water. He is also a recipient of various international and national scholarship including STA Japan, Linneas-Palme Sweden, IFS, Sweden, Indo-Australian, Indo-Russina, ILTP (DST) Russia, SASNET and SIDA, Sweden to have interactions and collaboratrions with other eminent scientists working in this field. He has authored numerous articles in reputed refereed journals and authored five books in these aspects.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR S Chidambaram
S. Chidambaram, Reader in Annamalai University: he took his graduation and master's degree in Geology with distinction (gold medal and merit scholarship) from Madurai Kamraj University and Annamalai University (1996) respectively. While being engaged in research as JRF in MoEF project in Annamalai University, completed his PhD in Hydrogeochemistry of groundwater in Erode district, Tamilnadu (2000). During the course of his research work he cleared SLET under UGC and joined as a lecturer in Annamalai University in 1998 and guided few M.Sc., M.Phil and PhD dissertations. He has developed program in C++ for hydro geochemical studies and his work was selected as the best paper in the International conference AHI in 2004. he got few major research projects from DST, UGC & government agencies on ground water quality International and also serving as a technical consultant for BBV, Englandand VRV consultants, Chennai in a project fro a water demand management for the overexploited regions in Chennai in DFID project. He has presented and published few papers in international and national journals.
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