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Evaluating the groundwater potential of Wadi Al-Jizi, Sultanate of Oman, by integrating remote sensing and GIS techniques

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Groundwater resources are highly stressed due to their overuse, especially in the arid region. This study is aimed at discovering potential groundwater resource zones using currently available data and state-of-the-art methods. This will lead to effective management of scarcely available and rapidly depleting groundwater resources in the Wadi Al-Jizi catchment, located in the Al-Batinah region. Data on terrain characteristics, geology, and geomorphology was integrated using remote sensing techniques and geographical information system (GIS). The result from this exercise was used for the identification of areas with a high potential for groundwater availability. These areas were classified into five types, namely, excellent, good, medium, low, and very low representing 11%, 59.5%, 26%, and 3.5% of the total area, respectively. The present study shows that the integration of all the weighted parameters shows promising results in the zonation of groundwater. This study shall be useful to the decision-makers in highlighting potential drilling as well as recharge sites in the area.

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The authors acknowledge the help of the Ministry of Defense (MOD) and Ministry of Regional Municipality and Water Resources (MRMWR), Oman, for providing required information.

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  1. School of Engineering, University of Petroleum and Energy Studies, Dehradun, India

    Javed Akhtar & Syed Mohammed Tauseef

  2. Civil & Architectural Engineering Section, Engineering Department, University of Technology and Applied Sciences, Muscat, Sultanate of Oman

    Javed Akhtar, Parmeswari Kaliyaperumal & Humayun Sarkar

  3. Department of Civil & Architectural Engineering, Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Sultanate of Oman

    Ahmed Sana

  4. Department of Civil Engineering, Karunya Institute of Technology and Sciences, Karunya Nagar, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India

    Gajendran Chellaiah

  5. MOE Key Laboratory of Western China’s Environmental System, College of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou , 730000, People’s Republic of China

    Ramamoorthy Ayyamperumal

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JA: Conceptualization, original draft; program running. AS: Writing, review and editing; supervision. SMT: Data curation and data validation and software. GC: Data curation, software, review and editing. PK: Data curation HS: Software and data curation. RA: Data validation and writing, review and editing.

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Akhtar, J., Sana, A., Tauseef, S.M. et al. Evaluating the groundwater potential of Wadi Al-Jizi, Sultanate of Oman, by integrating remote sensing and GIS techniques. Environ Sci Pollut Res 29, 72332–72343 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-021-17848-x

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