CEGIS Technical Note 06
Ganges River: Morphological Evolution and Prediction
Dhaka
July 2003
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CEGIS Technical note 06
Date of publication: July 2003
Other reports in the CEGIS Technical Note series
Technical note-01: National methodology for drought vulnerability assessment.
Technical note-02: Concept paper on Groundwater module
Technical note-03: Application of High Resolution Satellite Images for Urban Mapping
Technical note-04: Development of Mouza Database
Technical note-05: Land Use Map of Meghna-Dhonagoda and surrounding Areas Using Satellite Data
Technical note-06: Ganges River: Morphological Evolution and Prediction
Study team
Maminul Haque Sarker
Morphologist and main researcher
Yasmin Khayer
Morphologist,
Md. Altaf Hossain
Jr. Morphologist
Nazneem Aktar
Jr. Morphologist
Advice from
Prof. Colin R. Thorne, University of Nottingham
Acknowledgements
This research was carried out under the framework of the WARPO support project Erosion
Monitoring and Vulnerability Assessment. Ms. Iffat Huque’s support in carrying out the study is
gratefully acknowledged. The support given by Dr. Riaz Khan, Executive Director, and Mr. Mujibul
Huq, Director, CEGIS during the study is also highly appreciated. Thanks are due to Ms. Asifa
Rahman and Mr. Sayeefur Rahman Rizvi for support in linguistic editing and formatting of the report,
respectively.
Table of contents
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