Performance Evaluation of Irrigation Project Using RS GIS - A Case Study of Upper Ganga Canal Command

摘要

Irrigated agriculture is under tremendous pressure to escalate the produciton to feed rising population. To sustain balance between the supply and demand of agricultural produce more area must be brought under irrigation and the performance of existing irrigaiton projetcs must be assessed. The traditional performance evaluation techniques are mainly based on the field observed data and hence can be done at higher hierarchical levels. With the advent of remote sensing and GIS techniques the possibility of accurate, spatially & temporally distributed evaluation of irrigation project has increased exponentially. In present study an atempt has been made to formulate a methodology to evaluate the performance of canal irrigation system using Remote sensing and GIS.