Inventory and Monitoring of Land Degradation Processes Using Space Data
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Binal A Christian
Space Applications Centre, ISRO, Ahmedabad, India
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P S Dhinwa
Space Applications Centre, ISRO, Ahmedabad, India
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Ajai Ajai
TALLEEM Research Foundation, Ahmedabad, India
Abstract
Land degradation is one of the major environmental hazards, affecting theliving conditions of millions of people all across the world. Inventory and monitoring
of the land degradation status are the primary requirement in preparation of mitigation
plan to combat land degradation. The present paper, therefore, aims at the creation
of spatial inventory of land degradation processes using satellite data. Multi-season
Landsat TM data of 30 m spatial resolution, pertaining to the years 1992, 2001 and
2016, have been analysed to prepare land degradation maps of Ballia district, Uttar
Pradesh state in northern India. Monitoring and assessment of the desertification has
been carried out for a period of 24 years. In this study, an attempt is made to monitor
the changes in land degradation status during 1992 to 2016 by using multi-temporal
satellite data. Water logging and sodicity in agricultural land are the major processes
of land degradation active in Ballia district. Analysis of satellite data reveals that area
under sodicity in agriculture land has increased from 23.04 km2 in 1992 to 25.08 km2
in 2016, while water logging in agricultural land has increased from 199.92 km2 in 1992
to 210.25 km2 in 2016.
Key words: Land degradation, monitoring, multi-temporal, satellite data
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