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Time-Series Remote Sensing Study to Detect Surface Water Seasonality and Local Water Management at Upper Reaches of Southwestern Bengal Delta from 1972 to 2020

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  • Nazmul Huda

    (Graduate School of Engineering, Kagawa University, Kagawa 760-0016, Japan
    Department of Humanities, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), Dhaka 1000, Bangladesh)

  • Toru Terao

    (Faculty of Education, Kagawa University, Kagawa 760-0016, Japan)

  • Atsuko Nonomura

    (Faculty of Engineering and Design, Kagawa University, Kagawa 760-8521, Japan)

  • Yoshihiro Suenaga

    (Faculty of Engineering and Design, Kagawa University, Kagawa 760-8521, Japan)

Abstract

Bengal delta experiences immense seasonality of surface water due to its geographical position. This study aims to explore the extent and seasonality of surface water in the southwestern part of Bangladesh (SWB) where human intervention has been rapidly changing the land use for several decades. This explorative study relied on a total of 312 high-resolution Landsat images from 1972 to 2020 and interviews to present crucial months, seasons, and periods for surface water in SWB. The study uses a valid threshold point ‘0′ for Normalized Difference Water Index (NDWI) to extract water pixels and confirms that the NIR band has better efficacy to separate water pixels. On average, the SWB has faced around 5.5% of surface water between 1972–2001, which increased to 12.8% between 2002 and 2020. Based on the median value, around 6% of surface water was observed in the 1990s, which increased to 16% in the 2010s. The average surface water was detected around 6% and 7% in December and January between 1972 and 2001, which expanded to 18% and 19% between 2002 and 2020, mainly because of human interventions such as mix-cropping. The study strongly suggests considering December and January months for further land use and land class studies which focus on the southwestern part of Bangladesh.

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  • Nazmul Huda & Toru Terao & Atsuko Nonomura & Yoshihiro Suenaga, 2021. "Time-Series Remote Sensing Study to Detect Surface Water Seasonality and Local Water Management at Upper Reaches of Southwestern Bengal Delta from 1972 to 2020," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(17), pages 1-28, August.
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