A Novel Approach to Integration of Case Based Reasoning and Biogeography Based Optimization for Exploring Groundwater Possibility

Groundwater Exploration is the one of the burning issue in nature and environmental science. At present time, India is leading towards major water crises. Groundwater will be the most exploited natural resource in future. Therefore, it is need of the time to have efficient and precise exploration of groundwater resources. There can be various methods to save earth from these groundwater crises like groundwater management, groundwater reuse or exploration of new resources for groundwater. In this paper, we have proposed a novel integrated approach of Case based reasoning and biogeography based optimization for groundwater exploration. The proposed concept is structured in the manner to have the input in the form six attributes of slope, geology, landuse, lineament, soil & landform and give output in the form of low, intermediate and high possibility. In this method, case based reasoning used in the manner to retrieve the previous knowledge of use cases. Biogeography based optimization has the strategy to explore the optimum groundwater possibility in optimized manner. The overall method is evaluated using the parameters of sensitivity, specificity and accuracy.