Application of remote sensing and GIS for sustainable development

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Persistent identifier:: 856472832

Title:: Application of remote sensing and GIS for sustainable development

Sub title:: [Workshop on "Environmental Modelling Using RS & GIS for Sustainable Development" ... on 11th March 1999]

Scope:: 82 Seiten

Year of publication:: 1999

Place of publication:: Coventry

Publisher of the original:: RICS Books

Identifier (digital):: 856472832

Illustration:: Illustrationen, Diagramme, Karten

Language:: English

Usage licence:: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Publisher of the digital copy:: Technische Informationsbibliothek Hannover

Place of publication of the digital copy:: Hannover

Year of publication of the original:: 2016

Document type:: Monograph

Collection:: Earth sciences

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Title:: PRESENT AND ALTERNATE LANDUSE BASED ON NATURAL RESOURCES - ROLE OF REMOTE SENSING AND GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM. M. L. Manchanda & M. Kudrat

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PRESENT AND ALTERNATE LANDUSE BASED ON NATURAL RESOURCES - ROLE OF REMOTE SENSING AND GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM M.L. Manchanda & M. Kudrat Regional Remote Sensing Service Centre ISRO, Dehradun, India ABSTRACT Remote Sensing and Geographical Information System are potential tools for soil resource inventory and landuse planning. In this paper, an attempt has been made to demonstrate the potential of these tools for natural resources mapping and landuse planning with special emphasis on land suitability evaluation, land irrigability and land capability classification. Based on the information of soil resource inventory, land characteristics and land qualities, landuse planning was formulated through a contextual decision (or querry shell). A few case studies from different parts of the country are presented in the context of soil mapping and landuse planning using remote sensing and GIS. INTRODUCTION Optimum landuse planning is essential to improve soil conditions, check soil degradation, conserve soil and water, which consequently increases soil productivity and better agricultural return (Smith et al., 1987; Reeves, 1994). However, to a great extent this depends on the maintenance of land and soil properties within levels of variations that would allow their restoration. The feasibility of optimal landuse planning is based on the knowledge of the effect of management practices on water, land and soil properties (i.e. soil inventory data) and how they effect soil-crop relationship in order to make sound management decision (Francis and Clegg, 1990; Power and Fallett, 1987). Hence there is call for optimum landuse planning. Landuse planning includes various activities depending on the local needs. The most common landuse planning activities are: • Land capability classification • Land irrigability classification • Land suitability evaluation for specific landuse. The first two are used for broad categorisation and latter one is site specific. This is accomplished by following the procedures detailed by AIS & LUS (1970) and FAO (1976). Landuse planning is inevitable and indispensable for alternate landuse and agrotechnology transfer (Sehgal, 1996). Soil inventory information and land characteristics/land qualities constitute the basic inputs for the landuse planning (Simakova, 1966). Remote sensing technique is operationally used for soil resource inventory, natural resource mapping at the scale of 1:50,000. It provides the realtime and accurate information related to land/soils. Remotely sensed satellite data in the form of false colour composite (hard copy) and digital data can be used to study and monitor land features, natural and dynamic aspects of anthropogenic activities towards preparation of thematic maps, depicting, various status of land and soils (Korolyuk and Scherbenko, 1994; Kudrat et al.. 1990; Singh and Dwivedi, 1986). Thus remotely sensed data become an important element for the development planning activity by providing the basic informations of a region. In the present presentation an attempt has been made to demonstrate the basic principles and steps of landuse planning using remote sensing and geographic information system. Table 1. Soil resource maps used for various purposes. SI. No. Information Required Scale 1. National Level 1 1000.000 2. State Level 1 250.000 3. District Level 1 50,000 4. Tehsil / Subwatershed 1 25,000 5. Farm Level / Microwatershed 1 4.000 6. Soil Conservation Planning / 1 Implementation 4.000 7. Reclamation of salt-affected soils 1 8.000 8. Command Area & Pre-irrigation Survey 1 1 50.000 25.000 9. Optimal landuse planning 1 1 50.000 8.000 Source: Peer Review Document. Department of Space. 1998.

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