Volume 9, No. 2 October 2015

Chief Editor:

Dr. Ajai

Address for Correspondence: SAC Ahmedabad 380 015

Email: drajai1953@gmail.com

TABLE OF CONTENT

1.SpatialDM: An open source data mining plugin for QGIS

Pratyush Kar and Sameer Saran 141

2.A web based application study for integrated land management and administrative planning for east and south districts of Sikkim state, India

K.Mruthyunjaya Reddy, V.Raghu, T.Samdup and Rajesh Verma146

3.K-means versus fuzzy c-means as objective functions for Genetic Algorithms-based classification from aerial images and LIDAR data

M. Al-Nokrashy, A. Esmat, M.S. Gomaa, A. Hamdy 153

4.Investigation for potential groundwater recharge area over the Kunur river basin, Eastern India: An integrated approach with geosciences

Suvendu Roy and Abhay Sankar Sahu 165

5.Decentralization of civic amenities using geographic information system A case study of Sriperumbudur town in Tamil Nadu, India

R. Murugasan, G. Padmini and K. Srinivasan 178

6.National Wetland Database and Information System: A step towards integrated planning for conservation of wetlands in India

J. G. Patel, S. Panigrahy and J. S. Parihar 184

7.Sea ice occurrence probability data and its applications over the Antarctic

D. Ram Rajak, R. K. Kamaljit Singh, P. Jayaprasad, Sandip R. Oza, Rashmi Sharma and Raj Kumar 193

8.Identification of groundwater recharge zones and rainwater harvesting sites using geoinformatics:A case study of Karwan watershed in Sagar district of Madhya Pradesh

Amit Daiman, Narendra Gupta 198

9.Telecommunication utility analysis using GIS and GPS techniques

Prashant Persai and Sunil Kumar Katiyar 203

10.Zonation of water pans for surface water harvesting using GIS in Marigat division, Kenya

Rebecca Magut,Emmanuel C. Kipkorir and Fatuma Daudi 213

11.Study of temporal changes in land-use / landcover in the villages near it parks using remote sensing: A case study of Talwade IT park

Ujjwala Khare, Prajakta Thakur and Pradyumna Joshi 218

12.Lineament extraction analysis for geotectonic implications around Biligiri-Rangan hill ranges in Southern Karnataka, India using IRS-1D, LISS-III Image

H.T. Basavarajappa, S. Dinakar, M.V. Satish and M.C. Manjunatha 223

13.Estimating water surface elevation using HEC-RAS in lower Tapi basin

N. Goswami, P. K. Gupta and Ajai 232

14.Analysis and planning of infrastructural facilities in rural areas using facility index methods

Y. Navatha, K. Venkata Reddy and Deva Pratap 237

15.Feature discrimination using RISAT-1 dual polarisation SAR data

Rutu A. Parekh,R.L.Mehta,S. Mohan and Anjana Vyas 245

16.Assessing the quality of fuzzy land cover classification by similarity and certainty measures

M.S. Ganesh Prasad and Manoj K.Arora 249