Monitoring Horizontal and Vertical Cropping Pattern and Dynamics in Bihar over a Decade (2001–2012) Based on Time-Series Satellite Data     

Praveen Kumar  C. Jeganathan 《Journal of the Indian Society of Remote Sensing》2017,45(3):485-502

Increasing population and natural disasters like drought, flood, cyclone etc., has impacted global agriculture area and hence continuously modifying cropping pattern and associated statistics. The present study analysed agriculture dynamics over one of the densely populated and disaster prone state (Bihar) in India and derived vital statistics (single, double and triple cropping area, and monthly, seasonal, annual and long term status at the state and district level) for the years 2001–2012. The study used time-series MODIS vegetation index (EVI; MOD13A2, 1 km, 16 day, 2001–2012), MODIS annual Land Cover product (MCD12Q1, 500 m, 2001–2012) and Global Land Cover map (Scasia_V4, 1 km, 2000; Globcover_V2.2, 300 m, 2005/2006 and V2.3, 2009, 300 m), and extracted horizontal (i.e., area change) and vertical (i.e., cropping intensification) agriculture change pattern. The results were inter-compared, and validated using government reports as well as with high spatial resolution data (IRS-LISS III 23.5 m). From 2001–2006 to 2007–2012, the net horizontal and vertical change in agriculture area is +145.24 and +907.82 km², respectively, and net change in seasonal crop area (winter, summer and monsoon) is +959.21, +1009.84 and ?1061.64 km², respectively. The districts which are located along the eastern part of Ganges experienced maximum positive changes and the districts along Gandak river in the north-western part of the study area experienced maximum negative changes. Overall, the study has quantified and revealed interesting space–time agriculture change patterns over 12 years including impacts caused by droughts and floods in the study area.  相似文献   

Base uplifting analysis of flexibly supported liquid-storage tanks     

Praveen K. Malhotra 《地震工程与结构动力学》1995,24(12):1591-1607

An approximate method is presented for the analysis of earthquake induced uplifting in base plates of unanchored liquid-storage tanks that are supported directly on flexible soil foundations. The method takes due account of the non-linearities arising from the continuous variation of base contact area, membrane action and plastic yielding in the base plate. First, an ‘exact’ solution is presented for a uniformly loaded flexibly supported prismatic beam, uplifted by a concentrated force applied at one end. A series of such beams are later used in an approximate model of the base plate. The method is highly efficient and believed to be accurate for the level of uplifts encountered in practice. The results are presented for a range of foundation stiffness, representing loose sandy soils to rigid concrete mat. It is shown that, for the same overturning base moment, the flexibly supported tanks, in comparison with the rigidly supported tanks, experience significantly smaller axial compressive stress, but larger base uplift, foundation penetration, plastic rotation at plate boundary and hoop compressive stress in the tank wall.  相似文献   

Response spectrum of incompatible acceleration,velocity and displacement histories     

Praveen K. Malhotra 《地震工程与结构动力学》2001,30(2):279-286

The ground motions induced by an earthquake are expressed by the histories of acceleration, velocity and displacement. It is generally assumed that the acceleration, velocity and displacement histories contain identical information, i.e. the velocity history is obtained by integration of the acceleration history, and the displacement history is obtained by integration of the velocity history. However, this is not always true. In conventional processing of ground motion histories, additional corrections are applied to the velocity and displacement histories, which are not reflected in the acceleration history. As a result, the three ground motion histories contain slightly different information, or they are not fully compatible with one another. The structural response computed from the acceleration history, therefore, does not correspond to the processed velocity and displacement histories. The purpose of this paper is to underscore the engineering difficulties associated with incompatible histories and to provide a method of computing the response spectrum, which is compatible with the acceleration, velocity and displacement histories. Copyright © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.  相似文献   

Impact of Climate Change on Runoff of the Major River Basins of India Using Global Circulation Model (HadCM3) Projected Data   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Praveen K. Gupta  Sushma Panigrahy  Jai Singh Parihar 《Journal of the Indian Society of Remote Sensing》2011,39(3):337-344

The effects of climate change on hydrological regimes have become a priority area for water and catchment management strategies. The terrestrial hydrology driven by monsoon rainfall plays a crucial role in shaping the agriculture, surface and ground water scenario in India. Thus, it is imperative to assess the impact of the changing climatic scenario projected under various climate change scenario towards the hydrological aspects for India. Runoff is one of the key parameters used as an indicator of hydrological process. A study was taken up to analyse the climate change impact on the runoff of river basins of India. The global circulation model output of Hadley centre (HADCM3) projected climate change data was used. Scenario for 2080 (A2 scenario indicating more industrial growth) was selected. The runoff was modeled using the curve number method in spatial domain using satellite derived current landuse/cover map. The derived runoff was compared with the runoff using normal climatic data (1951–1980). The results showed that there is a decline in the future climatic runoff in most of the river basins of India compared to normal climatic runoff. However, significant reduction was observed for the river basins in the eastern region viz: lower part of Ganga, Bahamani-Baitrani, Subarnrekha and upper parts of the Mahanadi. The mean projected runoff reduction during monsoon season (June–September) were 18 Billion Cubic Meter (BCM), 3.2 BCM, 3.5 BCM and 5.9 BCM for Brahmaputra-Barak Subarnrekha, Subarnarekha and Brahmini-Baitrani basin, respectively in comparison to normal climatic runoff. Overall reduction in seasonal runoff was high for Subarnrekha basin (54.1%). Rainfall to runoff conversion was high for Brahmaputra-Barak basin (72%), whereas coefficient of variation for runoff was more for Mahanadi basin (1.88) considering the monsoon season. Study indicates that eastern India agriculture may be affected due to shortage of surface water availability.  相似文献   

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1674987112000618   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

P.Pratheesh  V.Prasannakumar  K.R.Praveen 《地学前缘(英文版)》2013,4(1):113-122

The Moyar Shear Zone(MSZ) of the South Indian granulite terrain hosts a prominent syenite pluton (～560 Ma) and associated NW-SE to NE-SW trending mafic dyke swarm(～65 Ma and 95 Ma). Preliminary magnetic fabric studies in the mafic dykes,using Anisotropy of Magnetic Susceptibly(AMS) studies at low-field,indicate successive emplacement and variable magma flow direction.Magnetic lineation and foliation in these dykes are identical to the mesoscopic fabrics in MSZ mylonites,indicating shear zone guided emplacement.Spatial distribution of magnetic lineation in the dykes suggests a common conduit from which the source magma has been migrated.The magnetic foliation trajectories have a sigmoidal shape to the north of the pluton and curve into the MSZ suggesting dextral sense of shear.Identical fabric conditions for magnetic fabrics in the syenite pluton and measured field fabrics in mylonite indicate syntectonic emplacement along the Proterozoic crustal scale dextral shear zone with repeated reactivation history.  相似文献   

Geochemistry of the late phanerozoic mafic dykes from the Moyar shear zone, South India, and its implications on the spatial extent of Deccan Large Igneous Province     

P. Pratheesh  V. Prasannakumar  K. R. Praveen 《Arabian Journal of Geosciences》2013,6(9):3281-3291

The late Phanerozoic dykes of the Moyar shear zone mark a prominent intrusive structure in the Precambrian crystalline rocks of northern Kerala. The dykes, having variable strike length and width, show a predominant NW-SE trend and basaltic composition with SiO₂ ranging from 48.59 % to 49.53 % and normative quartz/olivine. The chondrite normalized REE patterns are fractionated, parallel to sub-parallel, and are generally uniform but with negative Eu-anomalies. Chemical characteristics are typical of MORB or within-plate basalts and suggest derivation of melt from a fertile or plume-related mantle source with a considerable correlation to Deccan basalts. This is consistent with the regional geological setting including the volcanism, associated with a Proterozoic crustal scale shear zone, occurring long before the onset of seafloor spreading in the Indian Ocean. The possibility of redefining the southern limit of the Deccan Large Igneous Province is examined using the characteristic features of the dykes.  相似文献   

Snow Cover Area Mapping Using Synthetic Aperture Radar in Manali Watershed of Beas River in the Northwest Himalayas     

Praveen K. Thakur  Pradeep K. Garg  Shiv P. Aggarwal  Rahul D. Garg  Sneh Mani 《Journal of the Indian Society of Remote Sensing》2013,41(4):933-945

The current study has used Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellite data to estimate the Snow Cover Area (SCA) in Manali watershed of Beas River in Northwest Himalayas of Himachal Pradesh, India. SAR data used in this study is of Radarsat-2 (RS2) and Environmental Satellite (ENVISAT), Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar (ASAR). The SAR preprocessing was done with SAR image processing tools for converting raw SAR images into calibrated geo-coded backscatter images. Maps for forest, built area, layover and shadow were created and used for masking snow cover in these areas. The backscattering ratio of wet snow to reference image threshold method with value range from ?2 to ?3 db was used to estimate wet SCA for study area. In this technique, if the threshold is too high (≥-2 db) wet SCA is overestimated and if it is too low (≤-3db), this method underestimates the SCA. The wet SCA is under/over estimated (+6 % to?8 % on average) in late spring season due to the inherent terrain and SAR imaging effects of layover/foreshortening and shadow and also due to the masking of forest areas. Overall, the SCA derived from SAR data matches well when compared with total SCA derived from cloud free optical remote sensing data products, especially during wet season.  相似文献   

Indicator minerals as guides to base metal sulphide mineralisation in Betul Belt, central India     

Biswajit Ghosh  M. N. Praveen 《Journal of Earth System Science》2008,117(4):521-536

Zn-bearing minerals that act as indicator minerals for base metal sulphide mineralization from the Proterozoic Betul Belt, central India with special emphasis on their genetic significance have been discussed. Sulphide mineralisation is hosted by the felsic volcanic rocks and has similarities with volcanic-hosted massive sulphide deposits in other parts of the world. Synvolcanic hydrothermal alteration is crudely zoned with an inner high Mg-Ca core and an outer wider envelop of Al-Fe rich mineral assemblage. Most of the prospects have strata bound, moderately to steeply dipping, multiple, sub-parallel sheet like ore bodies composed of disseminated and semi-massive to massive ores. Zn-bearing spinel, staurolite, biotite and ilmenite typically occur within the foot-wall alteration zones in close proximity to the sulphide mineralization. Zincian spinel is ubiquitous irrespective of the nature of alteration zone. Zincian staurolite is nearly absent in Mg-Ca alteration zones but commonly present in Al-Fe alteration zone along with zincian ilmenite. Zn-bearing biotite in intimate association with zincian spinel is generally found in Mg-Ca alteration zone and in the transition to Al-Fe alteration zone. Most of these indicator minerals can be considered as products of desulphidation of sphalerite during metamorphism. Mechanisms other than desulphidation like formation of gahnite by overstepping of the zinc saturation limit of biotite during retrogression to chlorite and formation of zincian staurolite at the expense of gahnite is also recorded. Field presence of these minerals has immense significance in exploration in Betul Belt as they occur in close spatial relationship with the sulphide rich zones and therefore act as direct vectors to ore.  相似文献   

Geology and tectonic implications of tourmaline bearing leucogranite of Bastipadu,Kurnool, Andhra Pradesh,India     

Kiran Jyoti Mishra  Santanu Bhattacharjee  M S Reddy  M N Praveen  A D Bhimte  N Mahanta 《Journal of Earth System Science》2018,127(6):87

Tourmaline bearing leucogranite occurs as a pluton with pegmatitic veins intruding the Archaean granodiorite in the Bastipadu area, Kurnool district of Andhra Pradesh. We present field and petrographic relations, mineral chemistry and geochemical data for the leucogranite. It is essentially a two-mica granite, composed of quartz, perthite, microcline, albite, tourmaline and muscovite along with minor biotite and titanite. The euhedral tourmalines are regularly distributed in the rock. The geochemical studies show that the leucogranite is calc-alkaline, peraluminous to metaluminous which formed in a syn-collisional to volcanic arc-related setting. It displays strong ‘S’ type signatures with high K/Na ratios, moderately fractionated light rare earth elements, relatively flat heavy rare earth elements with \(\hbox {[Ce/Yb]}_\mathrm{N} \le 27.8\) and a strong negative Eu anomaly. The geochemical characteristics indicate that the leucogranite melt might have been generated from partial melting of metasediments. Electron probe microanalyser data show the presence of alkali group tourmaline in leucogranite represented by schorl and dravite. Tourmaline compositions plot in the Li-poor granitoids and associated pegmatites and aplites and metapelites/metasammites fields. Partial melting of boron-enriched source rocks is linked with the development of tourmalines in the leucogranite.  相似文献   

Hydrodynamic modelling and vulnerability analysis to assess flood risk in a dense Indian city using geospatial techniques     

Bhattacharjee  Sutapa  Kumar  Pramod  Thakur  Praveen K.  Gupta  Kshama 《Natural Hazards》2021,105(2):2117-2145

Natural Hazards - Urban flooding and waterlogging are causing menace in many cities around the world from the perspective of day-to-day functioning, health and hygiene, communication, and the...  相似文献