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Flood Inundation Mapping of Nagaon District
Influenced by Brahmaputra River using GIS
- Ijaz Ahmed (20162022)
Floodplains and flood-prone areas are dynamic land areas that need to be assessed in terms of
the risks they pose to existing and proposed development activities.
The Brahmaputra River along with its tributaries causes devastating floods in Assam almost
every year with colossal loss and damage to the infrastructure and environment in the state.
The main aim of selecting Nagaon district as the study area is that it was one of worst affected
in the recent Assam floods and hence demands studies on the various aspects whose results
enable to build the area in a more sustainable way to natural calamities.
The inundation or hazard mapping is an essential component of emergency action plans; it

supports policy and decision makers to decide about how to allocate resources, flood
forecasting, ecological studies, and significant land use planning in flood prone areas. An
inundation map displays the spatial extent of probable flooding for different scenarios and can
be present either in quantitative or qualitative ways.
The main objective of this study is to analyse the inundation area along the Brahmaputra River
network, and to assess the flood hazard in the Nagaon District by integrating geomorphic,
topographic, and hydrological data using GIS.
Description of Study Area
The geographic location of the district is between 25° 45'N to 26° 45'N latitudes and 89° 45'E
to 96° 15'E of longitudes . Nagaon is the centrally located district of Assam with headquarters
at Nagaon town. It is one of the largest districts of Assam. With an area of 3993 sq.km the
district consists of fertile alluvial plains and thickly forested hills. It is situated 123 kilometres
(76 mi) east of Guwahati. The district is bounded by Sonitpur district & the Brahmaputra River
in the North, Karbi Anglong and North Cachar Hills in the South, East Karbi Anglong and
Golaghat district in the East.
The population of the district according to the 2011 Census Data is 2826000 with a population
density of approx. 711 per sq.km
The district shape vector was buffered by 25 km and the resulting region is considered to be
the study area.
Data Description
 SENTINEL-2 Data
Multi-spectral data with 13 bands in the visible, near infrared, and short wave infrared part of
the spectrum
Bands Central Wavelength Resolution (m) Bandwidth (nm)

(µm)
Band 3 – Green 0.560 10 35
Band 4 – Red 0.665 10 30
Band 8 – NIR 0.842 10 115
A False Colour Composite was created by the combination of these bands upon which training
samples were collected for development of Land Use Land Cover map
 ASTER DEM
The Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) is an

imaging instrument on board Terra, the flagship satellite of NASA's Earth Observing
System (EOS) launched in December 1999.
ASTER has 14 bands of information although bands 4 to 9 are considered for Digital Elevation
Modelling. These bands are captured at 30 m spatial resolution
 Road Data was generated by digitizing a topographic map of the area using ArcGIS
 Population Data collected from Census 2011.
Tentative Methodology
Sentinel Data
Work Flow
 Preparation of Land Use Land Cover Maps
 Preparation of Road Map
Topological Digitization
Creation of
Map added of the road Preparation
shape file
as Base network in of Road
for road
Map in the study Map
network
ArcGIS area
 Preparation of Drainage Map and Watershed
Acquisition of Aster
Determination of
DEM of the study
Fill Sinks in the Data Flow direction using
area and clipping
sink filled data
using area shape file
Preparation of Pour
Preparation of Flow
Point Vector Data Stream Definition and
Accumulation using
from Maximum flow Stream Ordering
Flow Direction data
accumulation points
Development of
Snapping Developed Watershed from
Pour Point Shape attributed pour points.
with Flow Direction
Future Work
 Contour Inundation Mapping (50 m, 100m, and 200m)

 Weighted Sum Analysis thereby combining individual components and resulting hazard
mapping.
Preliminary Results

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Flood Inundation Mapping of Nagaon District

Influenced by Brahmaputra River using GIS

- Ijaz Ahmed (20162022)

The inundation or hazard mapping is an essential component of emergency action plans; it

Description of Study Area

Bands Central Wavelength Resolution (m) Bandwidth (nm)

Band 3 – Green 0.560 10 35

Band 4 – Red 0.665 10 30

Band 8 – NIR 0.842 10 115

The Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) is an

 Preparation of Land Use Land Cover Maps

 Preparation of Road Map

 Contour Inundation Mapping (50 m, 100m, and 200m)

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