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Summary (Research Article)

Integration of Remote Sensing and GIS Techniques for flood monitoring and
damage assessment: A Case Study of Naogaon District, Bangladesh
AbdullahAl Faisal , Abdulla Al Kafy and Sumita Roy
Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Rajshahi Univeristy of Engineering and
Technology (RUET), Rajshahi, Bangladesh

Introduction
Flooding is a serious problem in Bangladesh during the monsoon period, especially
effecting at northern, north eastern and central part of the country and Naogaon District
is one of them leading to economic losses and drastic loss of human life. In 2017 economic
losses counted up to Tk 300 core including severely damaging 23,000 houses and 97
educational institutes. Adding to this 80km of roads, 50,000 acres of crops and washed
away fish in almost 1,000 ponds. The article is mainly focused on the land use and floods
to be closely related matter such as urbanization across catchments’ area which will lead
to flood occurrence and more economic loss. The writer has suggested for effective
management of natural resources in accordance with the information on land use and its
changes. Furthermore Flood in urban area causes more economic loss than agricultural
land. The methods used to assess the research is to briefly study the chronological
assessment which finally helped to find out the relation between land use and flood
damage. Timeline between 2002 and 2017 has been analyzed adding the ease with
satellite images, Landsat 4 5 TM, Landsat 8 OLI and MODIS images ERDAS imagine and
GIS. The study aims to help the future flood management.

Methods
Naogaon Distric has bad experience of flood and that is why it has been chosen as the
study of the area. USGS (United States Geological Survey) is one of the best resources for
th Landsat 4 5 TM, Landsat 8 OLI images and NDVI at 30m spatial resolution extracting
the images of flood at different times. Processsing of the datas were done in three major
components and mapping includes number of steps in four major land cover classes.

Results
On exploring the events of flood in 2004 massive amount of changes has been seen. Due
to the overflow of water most vegetation and agricultural land were flooded which
washed out most of the agricultural crops and causes negative impacts on rural people as
well as economy. Secondly in 2017 the built up area affected by the flood is increased to
1.33%.
Flood level change assessment has also been done by the researcher finding that the
percentage of water body can be increased more than 30% and if it will, then the
extensive area of valuable land would go under water and would create a physical and
economic loss of Naogoan District.
Finally they have concluded that flood will ultimately result in extensive loss of property
as well as agricultural and vegetation lands and therefore economic loss is increasing
constantly which adversely aft the country’s economic condition.

Researcher has concluded with an efficient methodology to accurately delineate the


flooded areas with the help of remote sensing data and GIS tools in the Naogoan District,
Bangladesh. The study also suggested the further use of the remote sensing data and GIS
tools for flood risk zones mapping and the district is at high risk due to low gradient and
slope watershed are surrounded by numerous small and large rivers and indeed in need
of effective flood management by accurate flood mapping.
Critique
The researcher should have concluded with the better views of early warning system
installation after the flood mapping.

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