Driver based statistical model for simulating land use/land cover change in Indus river basin, India

Yajnaseni Palchowdhuri, Parth Sarathi Roy
2018 Remote Sensing of Land  
The main objective of the present study is to project the future scenario of land use/ land cover on the basis of their past pattern of change. Indus basin with its diverse physiography is an ideal study area. Remote sensing sources from Landsat (MSS), LISS-I and LISS-III (1985-2005), were used to assess the past land use at a scale of 1:250,000. A statistical driver-based model was used to simulate the land use scenarios for 2015 and 2025. The model output was validated by comparing the
more » ... ed maps with reference ones for 2005 and 2015. All the land use classes displayed an overall accuracy of 85-90% with the exception of the classes -built-up‖ and -wasteland‖.
doi:10.21523/gcj1.18020102 fatcat:yufzhch6fzfbfndht5sbwjlr5i