Morphometry of the Barakar River Basin, India: A Remote Sensing and GIS Approach

In the present paper an attempt is made to describing the regional topography and drainage of Barakar River Basin. For the above purpose, a detailed morphometric analysis of the river was carried out. Morphometric analysis was done using SRTM data with the help of ArcGIS-10 software. The area of the basin is 3161.18 km2 with two sub-basins which range in area from 1891.46 km2 to 612.47km2. The drainage pattern of the study area is dendritic to sub dendritic with stream orders ranging from IV to V orders. Drainage density ranges from 0.30 to 0.37 per km2, while the bifurcation ratio ranges from 3.63 to 5.32. The nature of the drainage pattern indicates that the river follows the initial slope of the terrain.