Title :
Environmental land degradation assessment in semi-arid Indus basin area using IRS-1B LISS-II data
Author :
Khan, Nasir M. ; Sato, Yohei
Author_Institution :
Graduate Sch. of Agric. & Life Sci., Tokyo Univ., Japan
Abstract :
Degradation due to hydro-salinity in the Indus basin semi-arid irrigated area of Pakistan has deteriorated the vast productive agricultural land. The present approach was an effort through various GIS and remote sensing techniques like, image registration, color composites interpretation, vegetation and salinity indices, empirical modeling, interpolations, overlaying, and supervised classification (MLC), providing information about the cause, extent and magnitude of hydro-salinity prone areas
Keywords :
agriculture; geophysical techniques; pollution measurement; remote sensing; soil; terrain mapping; GIS; IRS-1B; Indus basin; LISS-II; Pakistan; agricultural land; classification; degraded land; image registration; land degradation; multispectral remote sensing; pollution; salinisation; salinity; semi-arid irrigated area; soil; terrain mapping; vegetation; Agriculture; Degradation; FCC; Geographic Information Systems; Global Positioning System; Irrigation; Monitoring; Remote sensing; Satellites; Soil;
Conference_Titel :
Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2001. IGARSS '01. IEEE 2001 International
Conference_Location :
Sydney, NSW
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7031-7
DOI :
10.1109/IGARSS.2001.977916
