Land use and land cover analysis in Indian context

Journal of Applied Sciences

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1346-1353

  Roy, P S ^a   Giriraj, A ^b  

^a NATIONAL REMOTE SENSING AGENCY   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Classification; India; Land cover; Land use; Modeling

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; CARBON; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); DIGITAL STORAGE; ECOLOGY; ECONOMICS; LAND USE; MODELS;

BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM; CLIMATE VARIABILITY AND CHANGE; INDIA; INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH; LAND COVER; LAND USE AND LAND COVER; MANAGEMENT AND UTILIZATION;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

EID: 42149096159     PISSN: 18125654     EISSN: 18125662     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3923/jas.2008.1346.1353     Document Type: Review

References (51)

1. Agarwal, C., G.M. Greeq, T.M. Grove, T.P. Evans and C.M. Schweik, 2001. A Review and Assessment of Land-Use Change Models. Dynamics of Space, Time and Human Choice. Bloomington and South Burlington, Center for the Study of Institutions, Population and Environmental Change, Indiana University and USDA Forest Service. CIPEC Collaborative Report Series 1.
2. Alves, D.S., 2002. Space-time dynamics of deforestation in Brazilian Amazonia. Int. J. Remote. Sens, 4: 903-2908.
3. Amamath, G., M.S.R. Murthy, S.J. Britto, G. Rajashekar and C.B.S. Dutt, 2003. Diagnostic analysis of conservation zones using remote sensing and GIS techniques in wet evergreen forests of Western Ghats-An ecological hotspot, Tamil Nadu, India. Biod. Cons., 12: 2331-2359.
4. Berry M.W., R.O. Flamm, B.C. Hazen and R.L, MacIntyre, 1996. LUCAS: A system for modeling land-use change. IEEE Comput. Sci. Eng., 3: 24-35.
5. Bockstael, N.E. and E.G. Irwin, 2000. Economics and the Land Use-Environment Link. In: The International Yearbook of Environmental and Resource Economics, Folmer, H. and T. Tietenberg (Eds.). Edward Elgar Publishing.
6. Chomitz, K.M. an D.A.. Gray, 1996. Roads, land use and deforestation: A spatial model applied to belize. World Bank Econ. Rev., 10: 487-512.
7. FAO, 2000. Land Cover Classification System: Classification concepts and use manual.
8. Fitz, H.C., E.B. DeBellevue, R. Costanza, R. Boumans, T. Maxwell, L. Wainger and F.H. Sklar, 1996. Development of a General Ecosystem Model for a Range of Scales and Ecosystems. Ecol. Model., 88: 263-295.
9. Geist H. J. and E.F. Lambin, 2002a. Proximate causes and underlying driving forces of tropical deforestation. Bioscience, 52: 143-150.
10. Geist, H.J. and E.F. Lambin, 2002b. Proximate causes and underlying driving forces of tropical deforestation. BioScience, 52: 143-150.
11. Gilruth, P.T., S.E. Marsh and R. Itami, 1995. A dynamic spatial model of shifting cultivation in the Highlands of Guinea, West Africa. Ecol. Model., 79: 179-197.
12. Giriraj, A., 2005. Technical report, Habitat analysis of endemics and conservation zoning in wet Evergreen forests of Tininelveli hills (Tamil Nadu) using remote sensing and GIS.
13. Hardie, I.W. and P.J. Parks, 1997. Land Use with Heterogeneous Land Quality: An Application of an Area Base Model. Am. J. Agric. Ecol., 79: 299-310.
14. IIRS, 2004a. Biome level characterization of Indian vegetation using IRS-WiFS data Indian institute of remote sensing, Dehradun, pp: 166.
15. IIRS, 2004b. Land Cover Mapping Using SPOT-VEGETATION for South Central Asia. Indian Institute of Remote sensing. Dehradun, pp: 98.
16. IIRS-NRSA (Indian Institute of Remote Sensing Dehradun), 2002. Biodiversity characterization at landscape level in North East Western Himalayas, Western Ghats Using Satellite Remote Sensing and Geograpliic Information System.
17. Jha, C.S., C.B. S. Dutt and K. S. Bawa, 2000. Deforestation and land use changes in Western Gliats, India. Curr. Sci., 79: 231-238.
18. Kaimowitz, D. and A. Angelsen, 1998. Economic models of tropical deforestation. A Review. Center for International Forestry Research, Bogor.
19. Lambin, E.F., 1997. Modelling and monitoring land cover change processes in tropical regions. Prog. Phys. Geogr., 21: 375-393.
20. Lambin, E.F., H.J. Geist and E. Lepers, 2003. Dynamics of land use and land cover change in tropical regions. Ann. Rev. Environ. Res., 28: 205-241.
21. Landis, J. and M. Zhang, 1998. The second generation of the California Urban Futures Model: Part 1: Model logic and theory. Environ. Plan A., 30: 657-666.
22. nica, C. Barber, S. D'Angelo and T. Fernandes, 2001. The future of the Brazilian Amazon Science, 291: 438-439.
23. Leemans, R., E.F. Lambin, A. McCalla, J. Nelson, P. Pingali and B. Watson, 2003. Drivers of Change in Ecosystems and Their Services. In Ecosystems and Human Well-Being: A Framework for Assessment Mooney, H. (Ed). A Cropper, Wreid. Washington, DC: Island
24. Mauldin, T.E., A.J. Plantinga and R.J. Alig, 1999. Determinants of land use in Maine with projections to 2050. Nort. J. Applied For., 16: 82-88.
25. McConnell, W. and E.F. Moran, 2001. Meeting in the Middle: The Challenge of Meso-Level Integration. Indiana University, LUCC Focus 1 Office, Anthropological Center for Training and Research on Global Environmental Change. LUCC Report Secies 5.
26. Menon, S. and K.S. Bawa, 1998. Deforestation in the tropics: Reconciling disparities in estimates for India. Ambio, 27: 567-577.
27. Mertens, B. and E.F. Lambin, 1997. Spatial modelling of deforestation in Southern Cameroon. Applied G eogr., 17: 143-162.
28. Moran, E.F., 2000. Progress in the Last Ten Years in the Study of Land Use/Cover Change and the Outlook for the Next Decade. In: Studying the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change, Diekmann, A., T. Dietz, C.C. Jaeger and E.A. Rosa (Eds.). MIT Press, Cambridge.
29. Nair, S.C., 1991. The Southern Western Gliats: A biodiversity Conservation Plan. INTACH, New Delhi, pp: 92.
30. National Remote Sensing Agency, 1985. Survey Report on Wasteland Mapping of India, Hyderabad, pp: 1-10.
31. National Remote Sensing Agency, 1989. Manual of Nationwide Land Use/Land Cover Mapping using Visual Interpretation Techniques, Part-1, Hyderabad, pp: 1-58.
32. Nepstad, D., G. Carvalho, A.C. Barros, A. Alencar, J.P. Capobianco, J. Bishop, P. Moutinho, P. Lefebvre and U. Lopes da Silva Jr., 2001.. Road paving, fire regime feedbacks and the future of Amazon forests. For. Eco. Manage., 154: 39S-407.
33. Pontius, Jr. R.G., J.D. Cornell Jr. and C.A.S. Hall, 2001. Modeling thd spatial pattern of land-use change with GEOMOD2: Application and validation fo r Costa Rica. Agric. Ecol. Env., 85: 191-203.
34. Pontius Jr. R.G. and K. Batchu, 2003. Using the relative operating characteristic to quantify certainty in prediction of location of land cover change in India. Trans in GIS., 7: 467-484.
35. Pontius, Jr., R.G. and J. Spencer, 2005. Uncertainty in extrapolations of predictive land change models. Environ. Plan., B 32: 211-230.
36. Prasad, S.N., L. Vijayan, S. Balachandran, V.S. Ramachandran and C.P.A. Verghese, 1998. Conservation planning for the Western Ghats of Kerala: I. A GIS approach for location of biodiversity hotspots. Curr. Sci., 75: 211-219.
37. Ramesh, BR., S. Menon and K.S. Bawa, 1997. A vegetated based approach to biodiversity gap analysis in the Agastyarnalai region, Western Ghats, India. Ambio, 26: 529-536.
38. Roy, P.S. and S. Tomar, 2001. Landscape cover dynamics pattern in Meghalaya. Int J. Remote Sens, 22: 3813-3825.
39. Roy, P.S. and M.D. Behera, 2005. Assessment of biological richness in different altitudinal zones in the Eastern Himalayas, Arunachal Pradesh, India. Curr. Sci., 88: 250-257.
40. Soares-Filho, B.S., C. Permachin and G. Cerqueira, 2002. DINAMICA-a stochastic cellular automata model designed to simulate the landscape dynamics in an Amazonian colonization frontier. Ecol. Model., 154: 217-235.
41. Soares-Filho, B.S, A. Alencar, D. Nepstad, G. Corqueira, M.D.C.V. Diaz, S. Rivero, L. Solorzano and E. Voll, 2004. Simulating the response of land-cover changes to road paving and governance along a major Amazon highway: The Santare'm-Cuiaba' corridor. Glob. Change Biol., 10: 745-764.
42. State of Forest Report, 2001. Government of India, Forest Survey of India, Kaulagarh Road, Debra Dun.
43. Swallow, S.K., P. Talukdar and D.N. Wear, 1997. Spatial and Temporal specialization in forest ecosystem management under sole ownership. Am. J. Agric. Ecol., 79: 311-326.
44. Turner, B.L., D. Skole, S. Sanderson, G. Fischer, L. Fresco and R. Leemans, 1995. Land use and land cover change science/research plan. Joint publication of the International Geosphere-Biosphere Program (Report. No. 35) and the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change Programme (Report No. 7). Stockholm Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
45. Van der, A. Veen and J. Rotmans, 2001. Dutch perspectives on agents, regions and land use change. Environ. Model. Assesment., 6: 83-86.
46. Veldkamp, A. and L.O. Fresco, 1996. CLUE-CR: An integrated multi-scale model to simulate land use change scenarios in Costa Rica. Ecol. Model., 91: 231-248.
47. Veldkarnp, A. and E.F. Lambin, 2001. Editorial: Predicting land-use change. Agric. Ecosyst Environ., 85: 1-6.
48. Voinov, A., R. Costanza, L.A. Wainger, R. Boumans, F. Villa, T. Maxwell and H. Voinov, 1999. Patuxent landscape model: Integrated ecological economic modeling of a watershed. Environ. Model Software, 14: 473-491.
49. Wear, D.N., M.G. Turner and R.O. Flamm, 1996. Ecosystem management with multiple owners: Landscape dynamics in a Southern Appalachian watershed. Ecol. Appl., 6: 1173-1188.
50. Wear, D.N. and P. Bolstad, 1998. Land-use changes in southern Appalachian landscapes: Spatial analysis and forecast evaluation. Ecosystems, 1: 575-594.
51. Wood, E.C., J.E. Lewis, G.G. Tappan and R.W. Lietzow, 1997. The Development of a Land Cover Change Model for Southern Senegal. Presented at Land Use Modeling Workshop, EROS Data Center, Sioux Falls, South Dakota.