Integrated land and watershed development of domakonda watershed, Nizamabad district, Andhra Pradesh, India - GIS approach

The current study was taken up to investigate the utility of GIS tools for evaluation of Integrated Wasteland Development Programme (IWDP) implements in Domakonda watershed, Nizamabad district, Andhra Pradesh, India. Having information about natural conditions, resources, limitations and problems of watersheds, planning based on problems severity, potentials and priorities to decrease economic and human losses, increase in efficiency of resources based on capabilities and finally defining the best alternatives according to health and sustainability of ecosystems in a watershed are main objectives of land use planning. Resources allocation process is vital task especially for resources with limitations. One of these resources all over the world is land to use for different purposes. Since land use planning process use combination of different spatial information sources, applying effective tools with analysis capability is necessary. The present study were classified into different land use/land cover, slope, digital elevation model (DEM), contour, drainage.