Highlights Erosion and deposition are continuous processes in the Old Brahmaputra River. Erosion threats to the settlements and surrounding ecosystems. GIS and RS approaches are used to delineate channel shifting, erosion, and deposition calculation. The recommended restored channel is expected to reduce riverbank erosion.
Abstract River meandering causes riverbank erosion, which triggers socioeconomic and environmental issues in the riparian region and raises river sedimentation, thus, needing river restoration. This research depicts a channel restoration model to control river bank erosion and susceptible resource management along the Old Brahmaputra River course based on channel characteristics from 1980 to 2021. The secondary data of Landsat satellite time series and SRTM images were collected from the USGS website, while we used Google Earth images to verify the morphological features. Satellite images were on-screen visualized by ArcMap (10.3) to extract the river channels and measure the erosion and accretion areas. Results showed that the Old Brahmaputra River channel shifted its position due to erosion and accretion. Over the last forty-one years, ∼ 52 km2 area was eroded while ∼ 49 km2 area was accreted, and the average shifting of the river channel was 1.3 km2 per year. Accordingly, the river channel has become more sinuous decade by decade and threatens nearby settlements. Hence, this study proposed a river channel based on previous river channels, where the base channel is from the 2000s, which was more stable and flowed through the middle of the floodplain. Parts of the 1980, 2000, and 2021 river channels were also selected, which are relatively far from the susceptible settlements, to draw the proposed restoring channel. This model is likely to aid in developing government strategies for protecting riverbank erosion and river restoration in the forthcoming period. Finally, this study recommends that this newly proposed channel will be conducive to reducing riverbank erosion and the extreme threat to the settlements and their livelihoods.
Using river restoration model to control riverbank erosion in the Old Brahmaputra river of Bengal Basin, Bangladesh
Advances in Space Research ; 73 , 3 ; 1734-1748
2023-11-23
15 pages
Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
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