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

Volume

5

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

2100

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2001. IGARSS '01. IEEE 2001 International

Conference_Location

Sydney, NSW

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7031-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.2001.977916

Filename

977916