Assessment of forest change and fragmentation in Idukki district of Kerala
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TextDescription: MSC Geoinformatics 2013-2015Subject(s): Dissertation note: Master of Science in Geoinformatics 2013-2015 EXT "Lab for Spatial Informatics, IIT, Hyderabad" Summary: The ever increasing population globally played active role in decreasing and degrading the available forest resources through their illicit activities. Fragmentation of forest into small patches causes a threat to biodiversity as well as to the survival of important species by suspending the availability of resource. In this context it is vital to understand the extent and rate of fragmentation to imply conservative measurements. The availability of spatio-temporal satellite data aids in analysing the forest conversions over a period of time. Also various GIS based fragmentation models helps in assessing the intactness and fragmentation of forest and further their changing dynamics. In view of above context, the current study tries to capture the forest fragmentation scenarios of Idukki district of Kerala using GIS based models. We examine forest fragments in the Idukki district of Kerala region using Landsat satellite imagery taken between 1973 and 2015 in the Western Ghats region (Idukki). In this present study forest fragmentation patterns were categorized for different communities in terms of core, perforation, patch and edge, based on the contiguity of the forest.
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Master of Science in Geoinformatics 2013-2015 EXT Radhakrishnan.T Rama Chandra Prasad (Professor) "Lab for Spatial Informatics, IIT, Hyderabad"
The ever increasing population globally played active role in decreasing and degrading the available forest resources through their illicit activities. Fragmentation of forest into small patches causes a threat to biodiversity as well as to the survival of important species by suspending the availability of resource. In this context it is vital to understand the extent and rate of fragmentation to imply conservative measurements. The availability of spatio-temporal satellite data aids in analysing the forest conversions over a period of time. Also various GIS based fragmentation models helps in assessing the intactness and fragmentation of forest and further their changing dynamics. In view of above context, the current study tries to capture the forest fragmentation scenarios of Idukki district of Kerala using GIS based models. We examine forest fragments in the Idukki district of Kerala region using Landsat satellite imagery taken between 1973 and 2015 in the Western Ghats region (Idukki). In this present study forest fragmentation patterns were categorized for different communities in terms of core, perforation, patch and edge, based on the contiguity of the forest.
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