Evaluations of Disturbance and Land Cover Changes in the Chitrakoot Forest Range Madhya Pradesh

Abstract

Evaluation of disturbance and land cover change of forest degradation in the Chitrakoot forest range. Land cover change detection and normalized difference vegetation index analysis was carried out on the three images. Global positioning system and topographical map of scale 1:50,000 for ground verification ERDAS Imagine and ArcGIS Software for satellite image processing and analysis were used for the analysis. The Disturbance and land caver change analysis has been attempted based on thematic features of the area consisting of forest, agriculture land, water body, shrub land and waste land. Many change detection technique have been developed at the expenses of forest, shrub and waste land. The changes have been described vegetation index and also indicated the increase of land degradation between years 2000 to 2016 of all the major land cover changes in the study area.

Keywords: disturbance, land cover change, forest change detection

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Surya Kant Chaturvedi, Sanatan Kumar. Evaluations of Disturbance and Land Cover Changes in the Chitrakoot Forest Range Madhya Pradesh. Research & Reviews: Journal of Space Science & Technology. 2019; 8(2): 1–5p.