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The technology development scenario and user
requirements during the nineties, has necessitated the
launch of second generation remote sensing satellites.
In the GIS environment all the criteria in the data
base are to be stored and linked with all the soil units.
Based on expert system, a rule is to be framed following
the Tejwani (1976) and Klingebiel and Montgomery
(1961). Different land capability class as well as land
irrigability class are to be assigned. Two case studies
from Pithoragarh and Chandigarh area were
demonstrated.
CONCLUSION
The present paper highlights the concept and
potentiality of remote sensing and GIS techniques with
few case studies for land evaluation for specific
purposes and alternative land use planning. Using
similar means land capability classes soil and land
irrigability classes can be evaluated using remote
sensing and GIS.
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