Long Term Forest Cover Monitoring In Karnataka Using Multi-Source Data

This book is an attempt to monitor the changing forest status in Karnataka by using multisource data like toposheets(US Army),Landsat TM data, FSI forest cover data.The present study was undertaken to assess the status and changes in forest cover between the time periods of 1908-45 to 2002 in Karnataka. The study indicated that RS and GIS technology has tremendous potential for determining the status and the various aspects of land use land cover types of a region. It does not merely detect such phenomena but furnishes exact location and aerial extent of that with excellent precision. The present study indicates following status and trend of different land use land cover type of the study area.