Assessment of Irrigation Performance in Large River Basins under Data Scarce Environment—A Case of Kabul River Basin, Afghanistan

cg.contactakhtar@uni-bonn.deen_US
cg.contributor.centerInternational Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas - ICARDAen_US
cg.contributor.centerUniversity of Bonn, Center for Development Research - Uni-Bonn - ZEFen_US
cg.contributor.centerSungkyunkwan Universityen_US
cg.contributor.funderInternational Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas - ICARDAen_US
cg.contributor.projectCommunication and Documentation Information Services (CODIS)en_US
cg.contributor.project-lead-instituteInternational Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas - ICARDAen_US
cg.coverage.countryAFen_US
cg.coverage.regionSouthern Asiaen_US
cg.creator.idAwan, Usman: 0000-0001-8663-5688en_US
cg.identifier.doihttps://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rs10060972en_US
cg.isijournalISI Journalen_US
cg.issn2072-4292en_US
cg.issue6en_US
cg.journalRemote Sensingen_US
cg.subject.agrovocirrigationen_US
cg.subject.agrovocremote sensingen_US
cg.volume10en_US
dc.contributorAwan, Usmanen_US
dc.contributorTischbein, Bernharden_US
dc.contributorLiaqat, Umar Waqasen_US
dc.creatorAkhtar, Fazlullahen_US
dc.date.accessioned2021-04-29T23:31:57Z
dc.date.available2021-04-29T23:31:57Z
dc.description.abstractThe Kabul River basin (KRB) of Afghanistan, a lifeline of around 10 million people, has multiplicity of governance, management, and development-related challenges leading to inequity, inadequacy, and unreliability of irrigation water distribution. Prior to any uplifting intervention, there is a need to evaluate the performance of irrigation system on a long term basis to identify the existing bottlenecks. Although there are several indicators available for the performance evaluation of the irrigation schemes, we used the coefficient of variation (CV) of actual evapotranspiration (ETa) in space (basin, sub-basin, and provincial level), relative evapotranspiration (RET), and temporal CV of RET, to assess the equity, adequacy, and reliability of water distribution, respectively, from 2003 to 2013. The ETa was estimated through a surface energy balance system (SEBS) algorithm and the ETa estimates were validated using the advection aridity (AA) method with a R2 value of 0.81 and 0.77 at Nawabad and Sultanpur stations, respectively. The global land data assimilation system (GLDAS) and moderate-resolution imaging spectroradiometer (MODIS) products were used as main inputs to the SEBS. Results show that the mean seasonal sub-based RET values during summer (May–September) (0.37 ± 0.06) and winter (October–April) (0.40 ± 0.08) are below the target values (RET ≥ 0.75) during 2003–2013. The CV of the mean ETa, within sub-basins and provinces for the entire study period, has an equitable distribution of water from October–January (0.09 ± 0.04), whereas the highest inequity (0.24 ± 0.08) in water distribution is during early summer. The range of the CV of the mean ETa (0.04–0.06) on a monthly and seasonal basis shows the unreliability of water supplies in several provinces or sub-basins. The analysis of the temporal CV of mean RET highlights the unreliable water supplies across the entire basin. The maximum ETa during the study period was estimated for the Shamal sub-basin (552 ± 43 mm) while among the provinces, Kunar experienced the highest ETa (544 ± 39 mm). This study highlights the dire need for interventions to improve the irrigation performance in time and space. The proposed methodology can be used as a framework for monitoring and implementing water distribution plans in future.en_US
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dc.identifier.citationFazlullah Akhtar, Usman Awan, Bernhard Tischbein, Umar Waqas Liaqat. (18/6/2018). Assessment of Irrigation Performance in Large River Basins under Data Scarce Environment—A Case of Kabul River Basin, Afghanistan. Remote Sensing, 10 (6).en_US
dc.identifier.statusOpen accessen_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11766/13056
dc.languageenen_US
dc.publisherMDPIen_US
dc.rightsCC-BY-4.0en_US
dc.sourceRemote Sensing;10,(2018)en_US
dc.subjectperformance evaluationen_US
dc.subjectactual evapotranspirationen_US
dc.subjectdata scarcityen_US
dc.subjectsurface energy balanceen_US
dc.titleAssessment of Irrigation Performance in Large River Basins under Data Scarce Environment—A Case of Kabul River Basin, Afghanistanen_US
dc.typeJournal Articleen_US
dcterms.available2018-06-18en_US
mel.impact-factor4.509en_US

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