The changing land use scenario of Udumbanchola Taluk was assessed using remote sensing technique. The historic land use map was derived from topographic maps of Survey of India, surveyed in 1910 and published during 1912鈥 14. The land use map of 1997 was generated through the visual ...
In this study, digital remote sensing data of the Indian Remote Sensing satellite series I-D (LISS III, 20062007) on 1:50,000 scale, Survey of India (SOI) toposheet of 1914 (1:63,360) and 1967 (1:50,000) have been utilized to map various land use/land cover changes. Maps of ...
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Adoption of an integrated farming system (IFS) is essential to achieve food and nutritional security in small and marginal holdings. Assessment of IFS to know the resource availability and socio-economic condition of the farm household, farm typology pla
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is mainly underlain by massive Charnockite/Charnockite gneiss type of rock formation. Vertical Electrical Sounding data collected from 66 locations was interpreted qualitatively and quantitatively to obtain layered resistivity parameters and potential fractured zones in the deep aquifer. Thematic maps of ...
In the second section, we provide an insight into the social structure of the village Che Puram in terms of its caste groupings and their corresponding resources in terms of average land holdings, explaining the salience of these structures in relation to political allegiances. In the third ...
Based on Survey of India (SOI) Topographical maps of 1:25000, Landsat TM-5 and Landsat OLI TIRS-8 images the present study evaluates the effect of land conversion on Land Surface Temperature (LST) in Thiruvananthapuram district of Kerala. Land conversion matrix was ca...
validated using fire incidence data for the period from 2002 to 2020 collected from the forest fire portal of the Forest Survey of India. It was found that 71% of fire incidences fall in high-risk and very high–risk zones of the prepared map. The validation using the receiver operating ...
Abstract Mangrove ecosystems have high carbon storage and sequestration rates and become substantial sources of greenhouse gases when disturbed by land-use change. Thus, they are extremely valuable for inclusion in climate change mitigation and adaptation strategies. However in Kerala, a west coast state...