Soil fertility assessment by GIS and remote sensing for rice cultivation in Trishal Sub-District in Bangladesh. | |
| Author | Haque, Abu Ahmed Mokammel. |
| Call Number | AIT Thesis no.AE-04-02 |
| Subject(s) | Soil fertility--Bangladesh Rice|xSoils--Bangladesh |
| Note | A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science, School of Environment, Resources and Development |
| Publisher | Asian Institute of Technology |
| Series Statement | Thesis ; no. AE-04-02. |
| Abstract | All praises are to our Creator and the Ruler of the Universe, whose mercy keeps me alive and enable me to complete the study on "Soil Fertility Assessment by GIS and Remote Sensing for Rice Cultivation in Trisha! Sub-district in Bangladesh" for the degree of Master of Science in Agricultural Systems and Engineering. The author would like to express his heartfelt respect, deepest sense of gratitude, immense indebtedness and profound appreciation to the chairperson of the advisory committee, Dr. H. P. W. Jayasuriya whose scholastic guidance, infinite enthusiasm, constant encouragement, valuable suggestions and invaluable moral supports enabled him to complete this challenging research. The author also expresses his sincere appreciation and gratitude to programme coordinator and member of the advisory committee, Professor V. M. Salokhe, for his encouragement, moral supports, valuable suggestions and comments for the improvement of this research. The author also expresses his sincere appreciation to other member of the advisory committee, Dr. Nitin K. Tripathi for his kind support, constructive suggestions for the improvement of this research work. The author is very much grateful to Mr. Ahmadul Hassan, Senior Water Resources Planner of CEGIS, Bangladesh and Dr. Rezwanul Islam for their valuable suggestions and in-time scholastic guidance, continuous advices during the research field work and image processing was conducting in Bangladesh. Also express gratefulness to Mrs. Samsun Nahar Begum, SSO of SRDI Comilla Regional Laboratory, Bangladesh for her kindness and moral support for soil analysis. The author is indebted and gratefulness to his parents Md. Abdul Ghani and Mrs. Royhana Begum who inspired him to come this study programme. Special thanks are extended to aunty Mrs. Suriya Begum for her moral support to conducting this study. The author is thankful to his younger brothers Abu Ahmed Mafuzul Haque (Suman), Abu Syed Mohammed Nayim Hassan (Nayim), Abu Ahmed Mahmudul Hassan (Nipu) and Syed Ahmed Al-Hassan (Bernal) for conducting and assisting the field work during data collection in Bangladesh. The author expresses special thanks to Mrs. Iffat Huq, Mr. Syed Ahsanul Haque, Mr. S. H. M. Fakhruddin, Md. Mohirul Islam and Mohammad Ragib Ahsan for their kind cooperation during data processing in CEGIS, Bangladesh. The author expresses gratefulness to his uncle, aunty and cousin specially Md. Abdus Satter, Md. Abdul Wahab and Md. Samsul Alam for helping field conduct and staying in Trisha} Sub-district, Bangladesh. The author is truly grateful to all of his classmates specially Ms. Kamani G. Jayatilake and Mr. Shilema Goda Agama for their help and moral support to conducting this study. Finally, the author would like to express heartfelt thanks to many people in the study area who paid very much attention and valuable time in response to the questionnaire, and thank all respondents of governmental office and non-governmental office for giving very useful feed back during interview. |
| Year | 2004 |
| Corresponding Series Added Entry | Asian Institute of Technology. Thesis ; no. AE-04-02 |
| Type | Thesis |
| School | School of Environment, Resources, and Development (SERD) |
| Department | Department of Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources (Former title: Department of Food Agriculture, and BioResources (DFAB)) |
| Academic Program/FoS | Agricultural and Food Engineering (AE) |
| Chairperson(s) | Jayasuriya, H.P. W.; |
| Examination Committee(s) | Salokhe, V. M;Tripathi, Nitin K.; |
| Degree | Thesis (M.Sc.) - Asian Institute of Technology, 2004 |