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Land use/ Land cover Change Detection in Auranga River Basin, Jharkhand
- Source :
- National Geographical Journal of India. 66:51-58
- Publication Year :
- 2020
- Publisher :
- National Geographical Society of India (NGSI), 2020.
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Abstract
- Land use is a man-made dynamic process in which human uses land resource to fulfil their various economic, social and cultural needs and at the same time it also provides a base for development. The proper management needed for sustainable development of land can improve the eco-system and its productivity in a particular geographical region. The present study focuses on spatio-temporal changes in land use and land cover pattern in Auranga river basin of Jharkhand using geospatial approach. Supervised classification technique was applied in this study to detect land use/ land cover changes. The main objective of the study is to analyse temporal change of land use/ land cover pattern during 1996, 2007 and 2018 using various dataset as well as other ancillary data. The result reveales both increase and decrease of the different land use/ land cover classes from 1996 to 2018.
Details
- ISSN :
- 00279374
- Volume :
- 66
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- National Geographical Journal of India
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........7997c09e1fd9afcca002a43e66a8406f