Showing papers by "Pavan Kumar published in 2010"
01 Jan 2010
TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on the monitoring of deforestation and forest degradation in Ranchi using geospatial approach and use multistage statistical technique incorporated with the satellite data of LISS III (1996 and 2008) gives a precise monitoring of forest degradation.
Abstract: Forest ecosystem plays very important role in the global carbon cycle. It stores about 80% of all above ground and 40% of all below ground terrestrial organic carbon. Deforestation has many ecological, social and economic consequences, one of which is the loss of biological diversity. The rapid deployment of remote sensing (RS) satellites and development of RS analysis techniques in the past three decades have provided a reliable, effective, and practical way to characterize terrestrial ecosystem properties. The present study focus on the monitoring of deforestation and forest degradation in Ranchi using geospatial approached. The multistage statistical technique incorporated with the satellite data of LISS III (1996 and 2008) gives a precise monitoring of forest degradation. This paper aimed to the analysis involved carrying out post classification change detection. Supervised classification of images of different epochs was carried out and then areas of the resultant classes compared for change detection. (Report and Opinion 2010;2(4):14-20). (ISSN:1553-9873).
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