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Figure-5- Change Matrix between 2000 to 2005 
   
      
Figure-6- Methodological Flowchart — 
The process methodology followed is to assess the extent 
and density and type of vegetation and analyse the 
deforestation, land use and land cover, geomorphological 
aspects, and present land conditions, by extensive use of 
GIS, Remote Sensing and Digital Image Processing 
techniques, carried out specifically for the years, 1992, 
1997, 2000, 2001, 2005 and 2007. 
The Data Products Used for this study were satellite 
imageries, GPS/DGPD readings, Survey of India(SOI) 
Maps, field data from Watershed Departments to reach the 
implementation point and information gathered from 
beneficiaries and local people. 
Topographic Maps. Available Topo Sheets of 1:50,000 
scale were used. The satellite data products of Land sat, 
IRS 1C, 1D and Resourcesat P6 were used. The data was 
processed in GIS and Image Processing software land use 
and land cover maps were generated, Other techniques 
followed were Normalised Differential Vegetative 
Index(NDVI), Ratio of Vegetative Index(RVI), Square root 
of Vegetative Index(SQRT) and Transformed Normalised 
Vegetative Index(TNDI). Digital image processing was 
carried for the extracting information from satellite imagery 
by importing the image, georeferncing, subsetting study 
area, image enhancement, land use and land cover 
classification, supervised and Unsupervised classification, 
Accuracy Assessment, Determination of Vegetation 
Density, estimation of Vegetation Indices and finally 
estimation of Change Detection. 
The following field observations were made from the 
watershed evaluations in the three evaluated districts: 
S. GAPS IN REMOTE SENSING FOR 
WATERSHED DEVELOPMENT 
User organizations like Agriculture, Rural Development, 
Forests and other line departments desired to use large 
scale maps of watershed resources to suit the village 
cadastral scale of 1:7,920 or 1:3,960. The resource maps at 
1:25,000 scales were overlayed to reduce cadastral map at 
the same scale however could not satisfy the implementing 
agencies as many small survey numbers were left un- 
addressed. In addition to the resource maps, they needed a 
detailed contour plan of 0.30 to 0.50 m interval with 
updated cadastral boundaries to plan the layout of soil and 
water  conservation/ harvesting structures. Another 
persistent demand from the said agencies is a full discovery 
of the remote sensing applications in different stages of 
planning for watershed development. 
6. AN OPTIMISTIC VIEW: 
The data requirements of the watershed agencies range 
from a macro to a micro level of resource information. The 
future missions of CARTOSAT-1 and 2 with 2.5 and 1.0 m 
PAN resolution, respectively, and the P-6 with LISS-IV 
sensor resolution of 6 m (multispectral) and AWIFS 
resolution of 70 m imbibe a sense of optimism in meeting 
the objectives of watershed development agencies. The