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Land use/Land cover changes around Rameshwaram Island, east coast of India

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Title Land use/Land cover changes around Rameshwaram Island, east coast of India
 
Creator Gowthaman, R.
Dwarakish, G. S.
Sanilkumar, V.
 
Subject Land use
Land cover
IRS-1C
IRS-P6
 
Description 1183-1186
Land-use/land
cover changes are studied using the Indian Remote Sensing satellite (IRS-1C,
IRS-P6) Linear Image Self-scan Sensor (LISS) III data of 1998 and 2010. Coastal
land use categories such as sand, vegetation, coral reef and water have been
identified using interpretation keys. Results of land-use/land cover assessment
based on visual interpretation are presented. The study indicates water body of
178 and 177 km2, sand features of 32 and 32 km2,
vegetation of 28 and 35 km2 and coral reef of 5 and 6 km2
respectively.
 
Date 2016-06-26T20:05:52Z
2016-06-26T20:05:52Z
2014-07
 
Type Article
 
Identifier 0975-1033 (Online); 0379-5136 (Print)
http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/34430
 
Language en_US
 
Rights CC Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 India
 
Publisher NISCAIR-CSIR, India
 
Source IJMS Vol.43(7) [July 2014]