Reviewers Decision Sheet

Title of the paper :

GROUND WATER MONITORING AND FLUCTUATION MAPPING USING RS AND

GIS TECHNIQUES FOR BANGALORE NORTH TALUK, KARNATA, INDIA.

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Name of the
Reviewer:

Recommendation Do not accept

Major Revision: Accept for Poster only

Overall Manuscript Rating (1 - 100) 50

Technical Comments on the paper

1 Subject matter Within the scope

2 Originality Not Original

3 General Assessment Good

4 Title Need revision

5 Language Need Revision

6 Abstract Clear and adequate

7 Are the key words appropriate and useful? Yes

8 Presentation Too brief for clarity

9 Illustrations Good

10 References Appropriate

11 Grading of paper Week

Comments to Authors:

1. Ground Water is a single word. Change to Groundwater in the entire paper

2. Karnataka in title, should be corrected- spelling mistake

3. Use of capital letter in the entire paper is inappropriate., e,g., In the present study the
Overexploitation of … in the abstarct. check for consistency of letters and words

4. Hightlight the newness of the study, looks routine nature of work using remote sensing and GIS.

5. In the abstract, the last sentence is not giving any meaning, try to modify to suit the results of the
study. Highlight the results in the abstract.

6. Not 'Peoples' , its People

7. expand what is QGIS, RS

Study area:

First, write few lines about study area or cut few lines about study area and then insert figure.

otherwise, starting with a figure looks ODD.

9. Use Bengaluru

10. fig. 2-8, the authors presented only figures, no explanation, try to insert few lines about what
these maps represents, uses, etc.

11. Methodology, first sentence is incomplete.

12. Many grammatical mistakes found in the manuscript., use of Capital words are not in a proper
order, imcomplete sentences, lack of discussions and justifications.
Comments to Editor:

The overall quality of the manuscript is not upto the standard due to many reseasons viz., lack
newness, originality, incomplete sentences, inappropriate use of capital letters, and small letters,
many grammatical mistakes etc. though the study of groundwater level is important, it should have
been addressed properly. So, the paper can be accpeted for Poster presentation and not
recommended for publication. That too, after major revision.

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