Kshipra Sub Basin - Asian Development Bank

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Appendix 3 Kshipra Sub Basin
SRTM 90 data. The DEM is used in basin and sub-basin delineation. A summary of the elevation
statistics is given in Table 39.
Table 39 Elevation Summary – Kshipra Basin
Parameter Elevation (masl)
Minimum Elevation 388
Maximum Elevation 831
Mean Elevation 510
186. Sub-basin delineation: ArcSWAT
performs automatic delineation of watersheds
using the DEM with a target outflow point
selected interactively. The Kshipra river basin
was delineated using 5,000 ha as minimum
stream threshold. This resulted in 41 sub-basins. These sub-basins are shown in Figure 49. The
basin area of the Kshipra up to the basin outflow point is 562,110 ha. Care was also taken to
incorporate the locations of stream gauge measurement locations while undertaking the delineation
process.
187. Land use/land cover is an important element of data that is required for pre-processing. The
merged landuse and irrigation source map from IWMI, as shown in Figure 50, was used for the
present study. IWMI derived the Ganges River Basin Irrigated Area product using MODIS 500-m and
AVHRR 10-km satellite sensor data merged with IWMI‘s Global Map of Land Use/Land Cover Areas,
to derive a new landuse map with agriculture landuse as well as sources of irrigation. The Kshipra
basin is part of the Ganga basin. Land use categories and the area covered under each is
summarised in
188. Table 40. The major part of the basin is under agriculture land use, and soyabean is the
predominant crop.
Figure 48: Digital Elevation Model of Kshipra Basin
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