ASSESSMENT OF HYDROPOWER POTENTIAL OF NEELUM RIVER USING REMOTE SENSING AND GIS TECHNIQUES

Abstract

The expanding energy interest, because of the quickly expanding populace, and the subsequent strain on our traditional fuel sources, has demonstrated the advantages of environmentally friendly power sources as an essential for practical financial development. Hydropower is one such source that is both inexhaustible and maintainable as well as being climate agreeable. In spite of the fact that Pakistan depends fundamentally upon hydropower, yet a significant part of the nation experiences monstrous force deficiencies inferable from the huge hole among market interest, notwithstanding having gigantic hydropower potential in the Indus and the Jhelum streams of Pakistan, a large portion of which actually stays un-tapped. Late headways have made conceivable the administration and handling of spatial information utilizing a Geographic Information System (GIS) based climate. The investigation centers around surveying the relative assessment of hydropower potential of bowls, the Indus and the Jhelum of Pakistan, utilizing geographical information, gotten through far off detecting as an advanced rise model, and neighborhood stream datasets. The information was then handled utilizing the different spatial analysis apparatuses, accessible in ArcGIS, to distinguish the likely areas for creating hydropower plants and to assess the hydropower potential