[PDF] Top 20 Landuse/ Land cover Analysis in Hamal Watershed of North western Himalaya’s using Remote Sensing & GIS

... © 2016, IRJET | Impact Factor value: 4.45 | ISO 9001:2008 Certified Journal | Page 2800 The mountain areas are experiencing the triple revolution of industrial, transportation and tourism revolution, which results in ... See full document

... without cover areas, 13 factory areas, 3 small dams (Rehana/Chuttri/Bhuttri dam, Kahal dam and Mang dam), 83 Commercial areas, 29 ponds, 10 tube wells,1 bank of Khanpur dam, 4 forests, 1 highway, 2 industrial ... See full document

... and land use/land cover study is necessary, for im- proved decision-making and for the resource management ...map using ASTER data and for the land use/land cover change ... See full document

... Keywords: Gilgel Abbay Catchment; Land Conversion; Causes of Land Cover Change; Population Increase; Socio-Economic Factors.. Introduction Interpreting and conceptualizing the land cover[r] ... See full document

... hannels of various higher order streams and the Sars located in and around the snow clad areas were taken as waterbodies. The waterbodies in the study area have decreased by 17 sq. kms from 1992 to 2013. The Sars on the ... See full document

... the north-western parts of Karnataka and lies at the border of two states, Maharashtra and Goa on the Western Ghats (50 km from the Goa state ...overlaying watershed boundary ... See full document

... a watershed and their direct relation to weather, topography, geology and land ...Indrayani watershed located in Indrayani River basin at the North-East of Pune is modelled, using the ... See full document

... of land use and land cover is important for many planning and management activities and considered as essential element for modeling and understanding the earth as a ...system. Land ... See full document

... generated using visual interpretation techniques and Arc Map ...Keywords: Land use, Land covers, Change Detection, LISS-III Data, GIS, Remote ... See full document

... literature, watershed has been defined as a drainage basin or ...a watershed can vary from fraction of hectares to thousands of square ...kilometers. Watershed is also classified based on the area ... See full document

... of land use practices in the study area in future by considering the existing socio-economic ...suitable land use plans in the watershed, thereby achieving eco-preservation and enabling the ... See full document

... Remote sensing has become a powerful tool for the regional mapping of natural resources and geological ...of remote sensing in the mid-seventies, enough progress has been achieved in data ... See full document

... The land use/cover information helps in understanding status of use of resources and in monitoring, modeling and analyzing environmental change (Krishna et ...The land use/land cover ... See full document

... and Remote Sensing (RS) are at this moment providing new tools for sophisticated ecosystem ...mapping land cover are important for global monitoring studies with the component of resource ... See full document

... The land use/land cover dynamics modify the availability of different important resources including vegetation, soil, water and other (Bruijnzeel, 2004 & Chomitz et ...study Land ... See full document

... rock; land with scrub; mining/industrial waste and salt affected ...generated using SoI Topomap of 1:50,000 scale; IRS-1D, LISS-III satellite image through VIIT & DIP and updated on Google Earth image ... See full document

... district land use and land cover categories of agricultural land was ...built-up land was 545.12sq.km, fallow land was ...scrub land was 131.25sq.km, water bodies were ... See full document

... the Western Ghats. Interestingly enough, the Western Ghats are considered to be the oldest mountain range in the world, composed of rock that is said to be billions of years old Study area administratively ... See full document

... population for a given time (e.g. 1980, 1990, 2005, etc.) divided by the total land area of the given area (in this case, 854 sq miles). The resulting number is the density per sq. mile of St. Tammany Parish (see ... See full document

... snow cover may also be used in hydrological cycle and climate ...snow cover information on repetitive basis from vast snow covered areas of Hima- laya using conventional survey and mapping (manned ... See full document