Morphometric analysis for prioritizing sub-watersheds of Murredu River basin, Telangana State, India, using a geographical information system

Journal of Engineering and Applied Science

Table 7 LULC results of the Murredu catchment

LULC category	SW1	SW2	SW3	SW4	SW5	SW6	SW7	SW8	SW9	SW10	SW11	SW12	SW13	SW14
Water (km²)	0.44	0.19	0.56	0.12	1.03	0.62	0.75	2.54	0.21	1.30	0.70	0.93	1.60	0.31
Trees (km²)	67.40	2.81	24.51	29.03	26.56	27.47	8.92	30.26	5.46	18.42	9.35	13.50	28.83	5.61
Grass (km²)	0.05	0	0.06	0	0.19	0.10	0.03	0.32	0.01	0.07	0.05	0.10	0.23	0
Flooded vegetation (km²)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.05	0	0	0	0
Crops (km²)	22.13	13.06	46.34	18.36	38.98	45.99	108.71	79.50	10.35	63.38	102.46	63.82	106.26	44.04
Scrub/shrub (km²)	30.98	9.57	26.81	20.49	49.52	33.97	42.64	89.93	8.00	36.27	9.78	30.20	42.66	19.24
Built area (km²)	0.49	0.16	0.95	0.21	1.96	0.99	4.07	25.84	8.35	2.84	5.71	3.12	6.43	2.37
Bare ground (km²)	0	0	0.85	0	1.00	0.08	0	2.53	0	0	0.07	0.28	0.73	0.10
Total area (km²)	121.50	25.79	100.09	68.21	119.25	109.21	165.12	230.92	32.38	122.33	128.13	111.95	186.74	71.69
Water (%)	0.37	0.75	0.56	0.17	0.87	0.57	0.45	1.10	0.64	1.06	0.55	0.83	0.86	0.43
Trees (%)	55.48	10.90	24.49	42.56	22.27	25.15	5.40	13.11	16.87	15.06	7.30	12.06	15.44	7.83
Grass (%)	0.05	0	0.06	0	0.16	0.09	0.02	0.14	0.02	0.06	0.04	0.09	0.12	0
Flooded vegetation (%)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.04	0	0	0	0
Crops (%)	18.22	50.66	46.30	26.92	32.69	42.11	65.84	34.43	31.95	51.81	79.97	57.00	56.90	61.44
Scrub/shrub (%)	25.49	37.09	26.78	30.04	41.53	31.11	25.82	38.95	24.72	29.65	7.63	26.97	22.85	26.84
Built-up area (%)	0.40	0.60	0.95	0.31	1.65	0.90	2.46	11.19	25.80	2.32	4.46	2.79	3.44	3.31
Bare ground (%)	0	0	0.85	0	0.84	0.07	0	1.09	0	0	0.06	0.25	0.39	0.15
Total area (%)	100.00	100.00	100.00	100.00	100.00	100.00	100.00	100.00	100.00	100.00	100.00	100.00	100.00	100.00