Regionalization of Watersheds An Approach Based on Cluster Analysis /

• Main Authors: Rao, A. Ramachandra (Author), Srinivas, V.V (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2008.
• Series: Water Science and Technology Library, 58
• Subjects: Earth sciences.; Hydrology.; Hydrogeology.; Pattern recognition.; Regional planning.; Urban planning.; Statistics.; Civil engineering.; Earth Sciences.; Hydrology/Water Resources.; Statistics for Engineering, Physics, Computer Science, Chemistry and Earth Sciences.; Civil Engineering.; Pattern Recognition.; Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning.

Design of water control structures, reservoir management, economic evaluation of flood protection projects, land use planning and management, flood insurance assessment, and other projects rely on knowledge of magnitude and frequency of floods. Often, estimation of floods is not easy because of lack...

Table of Contents:

• Regionalization by Hybrid Cluster Analysis
• Regionalization by Fuzzy Cluster Analysis
• Regionalization by Artificial Neural Networks
• Effect of Regionalization on Flood Frequency Analysis
• Concluding Remarks.