A framework for climate change and vulnerability assessment in an urbanized river basin through geospatial technologies and hydrological modeling

The article develops a framework for monitoring the climate change vulnerability in a river basin exploiting the geospatial and hydrological modeling. The entire work is planned in several stages; firstly, geospatial technology which is consisting of two sub-parts i.e. Remote Sensing and GIS; followed by Soil and Water Assessment Tool(SWAT) modeling and lastly, analysis of meteorological and climatic data to assess the vulnerability and future projection. As the meteorological predictors are the prime indicators of the climate change, so these have been analyzed at Grid Analysis and Display System (GrADS) for 65 years (1948-2012). For the assessment of the past scenario, present spread and future projections and vulnerability of hydrology and forestry, knowledge driven natural resource potential modeling and soft computing techniques need to apply in the Shivna River Basin; Maharashtra, India. The land Use Land Cover (LULC) change also has been shown in 1972 and 2013 by LANDSAT imagery.