Evaluation of an urban drainage system and its resilience using remote sensing and GISShow others and affiliations
2021 (English)In: Remote Sensing Applications: Society and Environment, ISSN 2352-9385, Vol. 23, article id 100601Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
The increasing number of pluvial floods due to extreme climatic events or poor maintenance of the drainage networks urge for assessing the performance of the urban drainage system (UDS). This paper presents a comprehensive evaluation of the UDS of Gurugram City, India. While the limited availability of sub-hourly precipitation and finer resolution geospatial data pose major challenges in the detailed analyses through Storm Water Management Model (SWMM), it was circumvented by utilizing the high-resolution remotely sensed datasets viz., IMERG (half-hourly precipitation data from 2000 to 2019), ALOS PALSAR (Digital Elevation Model) and Sentinel-2 (land use/land cover). Functional failure scenarios (i.e., the combinations of climate change and urbanization) were simulated to assess the impacts on the resilience of the UDS. The modelling results showed that individually, climate change would impose a more serious threat than urbanization, whereas their combinations would significantly hamper the resilience of the UDS. The structural failure (only single link-failure) scenarios were analyzed, and 11 out of 25 conduits were identified to be non-resilient. The study highlights the importance of the readily available remote sensing datasets, which fill the gap of non-availability of ground-based datasets at desirable resolutions, especially in developing countries.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Elsevier, 2021. Vol. 23, article id 100601
Keywords [en]
UDS, Resilience, IMERG, Functional and structural failure, Gurugram city
National Category
Earth Observation
Research subject
Soil Mechanics
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:ltu:diva-86526DOI: 10.1016/j.rsase.2021.100601ISI: 000686899400001Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85111921517OAI: oai:DiVA.org:ltu-86526DiVA, id: diva2:1583382
Note
Validerad;2021;Nivå 2;2021-08-06 (beamah)
2021-08-062021-08-062025-02-10Bibliographically approved