School of Oceanographic Studies, Jadavpur University, Jadavpur, Raja S.C. Mallick Road, Kolkata – 700032, West Bengal, India
*Email id: samanta.kaberi@gmail.com
Online published on 16 January, 2015.
River shapes surrounding landscapes and is changed by several hydrodynamics and subsequent morpho dynamic prosesses. Bhagirathi-Hugli is the main river of the Nadia district. In this paper a part of the course of Bhagirathi-Hugli river through Nadia district is taken as the study area. The present study is mainly oriented towards the morphometric measurement of river through temporal changes during 1977, 1990, 2010 of LANDSAT MSS and LAND SAT TM satellite data. In this paper an attempt has been made to get the nature of shifting, direction of shifting, erosion and deposition along the river bank, ox-bow lake formation, sinuosity index measurement, meander ratio and cut off of the river channel has also been calculated.
River shifting, changing river course, erosion and deposition, sinuosity, Remote sensing
