Morphometric Analysis of the Indira Sagar Region, Madhya Pradesh, India

Remote sensing and geographical information system has proved to be very effective tool in delineation of drainage pattern. GIS and image processing techniques have been adopted for the identification of morphological features and analyzing their properties of the Narnada River Basin near Indira sagar area in Madhya Pradesh state, India. Narmada River is known as the “Life line of Madhya Pradesh� which flows through the Indira sagar area. The present study aims to analyze the drainage morphometry of the Indira sagar basin and its significance in the basin characteristics. Morphometric parameters such as linear and aerial aspects of the river basin were determined and computed using ArcGIS 10.2 software. Narmada River is the 6th order basin and it’s drainage pattern mainly in sub-dendritic to dendritic type. The various parameters considered in this study are stream order, stream number, mean stream length, bifurcation ratio, drainage density, stream frequency, elongation ratio, and circulatory ratio and form factor. It is observed that the drainage density value is low which indicates the basin is highly permeable subsoil.