A reservoir is an essential part of a normal water resource. Regular analysis of the sediment deposition pattern and assessment of available storage capacity of reservoirs is an important aspect of water resources management. The conventional techniques of quantification of sediment deposition in reservoir, such as hydrographic research and the inflow-outflow methods, are cumbersome, costly and time consuming. Further, conjecture of sediment deposition using empirical and statistical methods requires a huge amount of input data and the results are still not encouraging. Due to sedimentation, the water-spread area of a reservoir at various elevations keeps on decreasing. Remote sensing, through its spatial, spectral and temporal attributes, provides synoptic and repetitive information on the water-spread area of a reservoir. By use of remote sensing data in conjunction with a geographic information system, the temporal change in water-spread area can be analysed about the sediment deposition pattern in a reservoir. In this paper A case study, related to the assessment of sediment deposition in Upper Lake Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh State, India, is presented. It was observed that Upper Lake of Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India lost its gross storage capacity from 101.6 MCM to 75.72 MCM i.e. 25.88MCM which is 25.47 %.
