Abstract Drainage pattern study utilizing Remote Sensing (RS) and Geographical Information System (GIS) has proved to be an efficient and quick tool, nowadays, for water resources planning, conservation and management. In the present study morphological features of ‘Bhilanganga’ drainage basin are being extracted utilizing satellite imagery and analyzed for assessing the drainage pattern and identifying priority sub-basins for conservation measures as well. The basin morphometric parameters such as linear and aerial aspects were determined and computed using ArcInfo software. The region is a part of Uttarakhand state of India, a hilly catchment in the lower Himalayan range covering an area of 1465.38 km 2 . The area extends from 30o19’41”N to 30o52’42”N latitude and from 78o29’13”E to 79o2’9”E longitude. The entire area is sub-divided into eight sub-basins ranging in area from 91.91 km2 to 465.29 km 2 . The pattern of drainage in the area is dendritic to sub-dendritic and the stream ordering ranges from order I to VII. The drainage density indicates a coarser drainage ranging from 1.68 to 2.34 km/km 2 . The entire area is the normal basin category as observed from the bifurcation ratio. The RS and GIS techniques have proven to be very useful in this case of morphometric analysis, as the study area is a hilly catchment located in a difficult terrain. *Author for correspondence Indian Journal of Science and Technology, Vol 7(10), 1650–1662, October 2014 ISSN (Print) : 0974-6846 ISSN (Online) : 0974-5645 Morphometric Analysis for Prioritization using Remote Sensing and GIS Techniques in a Hilly Catchment in the State of Uttarakhand, India Deepak Khare, Arun Mondal, Prabhash Kumar Mishra, Sananda Kundu and Pramod Kumar Meena * Department of Water Resources Development & Management, Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee-247667 (U.A.), India; pramodcae@gmail.com 1. Introduction Morphometry is the measurement and mathematical anal- ysis of the configuration of the earth surface, shape and dimension of land forms 1–4 . e morphometric param- eters are evaluated through measurement of linear, areal and relief aspects of the basin. Morphometric analysis involves quantifying morphometric variables which is very useful in studies such as regional flood frequency analysis, hydrologic modeling, watershed prioritization, natural resources conservation and management, drainage basin evaluation, etc. e bearing of geomorphology on hydrol- ogy is very significant. Geomorphological parameters of a basin represent the hydrologic behavior closely. In many regions most of the basins are either ungauged or difficult to access, therefore, the study on geomorpho- logic features of basins become much more important. e estimation of such parameters gains further impor- tance in case of hilly catchment since direct measurement of hydrologic data is tedious and difficult 5 . Recent Studies reveled that some of the model inputs related to land use/ land cover, soil etc. have been successfully derived from remotely sensed data, and modeling was carried out in GIS environment 6–8 . Remote Sensing has the ability of obtaining synoptic view of larger area in each pass and is very useful in analyzing drainage morphometry 2,9 . Keywords: Bhilanganga Sub-basin, Bifurcation Ratio, Drainage Density, GIS, Morphometry, Remote Sensing