Mifta ul Shafiq

TL;DR: In this paper, an attempt has been made to monitor land use/land cover of part of Dehradun city over two periods of time i.e., from 2004 to 2014 for change detection analysis and to assess urban sprawl using IRS P-6 data and topographic sheets, in GIS environment for better decision making and sustainable urban growth.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyzed the changing trends of precipitation and temperature variables in Kashmir valley along different elevation zones in the north western part of India, and revealed that the annual mean temperature of Kashmir valley has increased significantly.

TL;DR: In this article, a 27-year period of study has been selected from 1990 to 2017, the main focus being to characterize these forces and link them with the statistics obtained from remotely sensed data, the cause and effect relationship between various indicators of land use change were analyzed using Driver-Pressure-StateImpact-Response (DPSIR) assessment framework.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the status of snow cover area (SCA) using moderate resolution images of the Kashmir Himalayas and found that snow cover makes an essential component of the hydrological system of the Himalayan region.

TL;DR: A Mann-Kendall test was done on the climatic data to support the hypotheses as mentioned in this paper, and it was observed that initially changing climatic trends proved to be the triggering factor supporting this change, but in due course of time, the determinants took an economic and psychological turn.