摘要：Majority of the population of Sri Lanka does not have modern pipe-born water system especially in rural areas.They depend entirely on deep hand pump tube wells and shallow dug wells for their domestic water requirements.Most of the shallow dug wells in the dry zone of Sri Lanka go dry during the dry period. So construction of tube wells increasing very rapidly in the dry zone of Sri Lanka.Groundwater potential zone maps are the most essential tool for locating tube wells.Arial photographs,Geographical Information Systems(GIS) data and satellite images have proven

关键词：groundwater remote sensing gis reclassification 

单位：Faculty of Applied Sciences South Eastern University of Sri Lanka