Application of remote sensing and geographic information system in solid waste management for Gudivada Municipality, Andhra Pradesh, India

Abstract

Solid waste management is one of the main issues in the growing areas of the world and severe ecological trouble that should be considered prior to other environmental problems. A certain quantity of waste dumping without proper separation has led to financial and environmental problems. Due to straight discarding of waste in and around growing areas there is a lot of environmental problems that cause inconvenience to people staying in that area. There has to be appropriate planning of transfer and waste management. This scheme would deals with, how Remote sensing and Geographical information system is helpful in finding the latest appropriate areas for waste disposal and roads to convey the waste without causing interruption to the community. The suggestion made by applying RS and GIS someway helps to decrease the troubles of solid waste management and it’s carrying to the disposal region. It deals with finding the innovative appropriate region for waste disposal and the roads that doesn’t create trouble for the solid Waste carrying. The model will be applied on the Gudivada town’s case study region data for the study. The results will recommend a few changes in the present systems that are expected to decrease the troubles of solid waste management and its transportation. We take Gudivada town because it is single of the main towns in Krishna District, Andhra Pradesh, India which is in CRDA limits.

Keywords

• Gudivada
• Solid Waste
• Environmental work
• GIS
• Disposal
• Systems