PMID- 35184239
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20220628
LR  - 20230928
IS  - 1614-7499 (Electronic)
IS  - 0944-1344 (Linking)
VI  - 29
IP  - 31
DP  - 2022 Jul
TI  - Multi-criteria decision making and Dempster-Shafer model-based delineation of 
      groundwater prospect zones from a semi-arid environment.
PG  - 47740-47758
LID - 10.1007/s11356-022-19211-0 [doi]
AB  - The present study illustrates the delineation of the groundwater potential zones 
      in one of the most critical and drought-affected areas under Bundelkhand region 
      of Uttar Pradesh (India). Hydrological evaluations were carried out using GIS 
      tools and remote sensing data which ultimately yielded several thematic maps, 
      such as lineament density, land use/land cover, drainage density, lithology, 
      slope, geomorphology, topographic wetness index (TWI), DEM, and soil. Thematic 
      layers were assigned relative weightages as per their groundwater potential 
      prospects under multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) method through analytical 
      hierarchy process (AHP). To recognize the groundwater potential zone, weighted 
      overlay analysis was also performed. Additionally, for testing of the 
      Dempster-Shafer model, 16 wells in the study area have been selected. Based on 
      the probability of the groundwater occurrence, the belief factor was equated to 
      delineate groundwater potential zones which illustrate five different potential 
      zones. According to the AHP model, the northwest side of the study area is 
      characterized with very high potential zones whereas the northeast and southeast 
      regions constitute medium and low groundwater potential zones respectively. 
      According to the DS model, very high groundwater potential zones constitute 17% 
      and the remaining area falls under low potential. Overall accuracy of the DS 
      model is higher than AHP model.
CI  - (c) 2022. The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, 
      part of Springer Nature.
FAU - Pandey, Hemant Kumar
AU  - Pandey HK
AD  - Department of Civil Engineering, Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology 
      Allahabad, Prayagraj, 211004, Uttar Pradesh, India.
FAU - Singh, Vishal Kumar
AU  - Singh VK
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0003-2892-7505
AD  - Department of Civil Engineering, Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology 
      Allahabad, Prayagraj, 211004, Uttar Pradesh, India. spaceimage@outlook.com.
FAU - Singh, Sudhir Kumar
AU  - Singh SK
AD  - Banerjee Centre of Atmospheric & Ocean Studies, IIDS, Nehru Science Centre, 
      University of Allahabad, Prayagraj, 11002, Uttar Pradesh, India.
LA  - eng
GR  - NRDMS/01/267/2019/Natural Resources Data Management System/
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20220219
PL  - Germany
TA  - Environ Sci Pollut Res Int
JT  - Environmental science and pollution research international
JID - 9441769
SB  - IM
MH  - Decision Making
MH  - Desert Climate
MH  - Environmental Monitoring/methods
MH  - *Geographic Information Systems
MH  - *Groundwater
MH  - Hydrology
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - Analytical hierarchy process (AHP)
OT  - Bundelkhand India
OT  - Dempster-Shafer model
OT  - Groundwater potential
OT  - Hydrological evaluations
OT  - Multi-criteria decision making (MCDM)
EDAT- 2022/02/21 06:00
MHDA- 2022/06/29 06:00
CRDT- 2022/02/20 20:39
PHST- 2021/10/01 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2022/02/10 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2022/02/21 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2022/06/29 06:00 [medline]
PHST- 2022/02/20 20:39 [entrez]
AID - 10.1007/s11356-022-19211-0 [pii]
AID - 10.1007/s11356-022-19211-0 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Environ Sci Pollut Res Int. 2022 Jul;29(31):47740-47758. doi: 
      10.1007/s11356-022-19211-0. Epub 2022 Feb 19.