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@article{193537,
        author = {VIJAY MANE and MADHUKAR MORE and SUBHASH VIKHE},
        title = {Morphometric Analysis of Mandakhali Watershed, Parbhani District of Maharashtra State},
        journal = {International Journal of Innovative Research in Technology},
        year = {2026},
        volume = {12},
        number = {10},
        pages = {1001-1009},
        issn = {2349-6002},
        url = {https://ijirt.org/article?manuscript=193537},
        abstract = {The study was undertaken at Mandakhali Watershed in Parbhani Taluka in Parbhani District of Maharashtra state. It is located at 19014’ latitude and 76038’ longitude. The geographical area of village was 1445.44 ha. For watershed management, different morphometric characteristics such as linear parameters (stream order, stream number, bifurcation ratio, stream length, mean stream length), areal or basin parameters (circularity ratio, elongation ratio, drainage density, drainage frequency), and relief parameters (dissection index, ruggedness index, hypsometric characteristics) are important. Watershed delineate by using Arc/Q GIS 10.3 software. The reference watershed first delineated from the drainage and terrain information from 1:50000 toposheet. Different thematic maps i.e., watershed map, drainage map, aspect map, hill shade map, contour maps are developed with the help of digital elevation model (DEM) and Toposheet in Arc/Q GIS 10.3 software. In this research work found 4th order stream order of the studied watershed. The total stream length was found 25.5 km. The average Rb of Mandakhali Watershed is 3.82. It shows that the large variation in frequencies between successive orders and indicates the mature topography. The basin area was recorded as 14.45 sq.km. The basin perimeter was recorded as 17.78 km. The drainage structure was found moderate coarse i.e., 5.72 km-1. The elongation ratio of watershed was recorded as 0.40 which represented elongated watershed.},
        keywords = {Remote Sensing, GIS, Morphometry, Arc/Q GIS 10.3, Mandakhali.},
        month = {March},
        }