LAND USE/LAND COVER CHANGES IN SEMI-ARID MOUNTAIN LANDSCAPE IN SOUTHERN INDIA: A GEOINFORMATICS BASED MARKOV CHAIN APPROACH

Nowadays land use/ land cover in mountain landscape is in critical condition; it leads to high risky and uncertain environments. These areas are facing multiple stresses including degradation of land resources; vagaries of climate and depletion of water resources continuously affect land use pract...

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Main Authors: S. A. Rahaman, S. Aruchamy, K. Balasubramani, R. Jegankumar
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Copernicus Publications 2017-05-01
Series:The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences
Online Access:http://www.int-arch-photogramm-remote-sens-spatial-inf-sci.net/XLII-1-W1/231/2017/isprs-archives-XLII-1-W1-231-2017.pdf