TANK INFORMATION SYSTEM OF KUNIGAL TALUK TUMKUR DISTRICT, KARANATAKA USING GEOINFORMATICS

Ravindranath.C, Nandeesha, Vikas S R

Abstract: Tanks are very important water bodies serving as a reservoir for many ground water arteries. Tanks revival/restoration is a much discuss about subject in the recent years. The present study Kunigal taluk of Tumkur district Karnataka state the entire area of kunigal taluk is an 981sqkm comes within six SOI toposheet, numbers are 57C/16, 57G/4, 57D/13, 57H/1, 57C/12, 57C/9 (scale 1:50000) . An attempt has been made in this study to know the physical and hydrological information of the 480 tanks in Kunigal taluk and lake conservation and its operation and maintenance during restoration work for further development of irrigation and drinking water system. i.e., for Marconahalli reservoir, Mangala tank, Kunigal doddakere, Begur amanikere and Kothakere tank by using software like ERDAS Ver 9.1 and Arc GIS Ver 9.1, this tank information system is further help full to know tank capacity , harvesting structures and improvement techniques.

Keywords: Restoration, physical and hydrological information, ERDAS V9.1 and Arc GIS Ver9.1 etc…

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15623/ijret.2014.0318022