Monitoring and Analysis of Wastelands and its Dynamics using Multiresolution and Temporal Satellite Data in Part of Indian State of Bihar
International Journal of Geomatics and Geosciences, Volume 1, No 3, 2010
Nathawat M.S., Rathore V.S., Pandey A.C., Suraj Kumar Singh, Ravi Shankar G.
“Voluminous increase in population has created an excessive demand for productive land. At the same time land degradation because of desertification, soil salinity, waterlogging, floods/droughts, excessive soil erosion and unscientific agricultural practices has resulted in the creation of vast stretches of wastelands. This has necessitated adoption of scientific measures for increasing land productivity and bringing more areas under cultivation/forests. In the present study, the multi-temporal satellite images of IRS P6 LISS-III were used to map wastelands dynamics over different seasons. An attempt has also been made to evaluate the potential of high spatial resolution LISS IV (5.8 m) data over moderate spatial resolution LISS-III data (23.5 m) from the Indian Remote Sensing Satellite for delineation of wastelands in a portion of the Indo-Gangetic plains of northern India. Visual interpretation based on image characteristics and a prior knowledge of the study area was used to delineate wasteland classes. Using LISS III data, 1372.92 and 605.90 hectares of land areas are identified as affected by seasonal and permanent waterlogged respectively, and using LISS IV, 1113.33 and 105.84 hectares of land areas are identified as affected by seasonal and permanent waterlogged respectively. Wasteland classes such as seasonal and permanent waterlogged could be further separated into wasteland classes such as land with dense scrub, land with open scrub, degraded pastures/grazing lands and degraded land under plantation using higher resolution satellite data.”
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