Application of remote sensing and GIS to assess land use changes in Jhunjhunun district of arid Rajasthan

  • 01/12/2009

  • Journal of the Indian Society of Remote Sensing

Over the last four decades exploitation of natural resources to meet increasing societal demands for land based products has caused significant changes in land use and land cover not only in nature's best gifted regions but also environmentally sensitive arid regions. Through digital interpretation of IRS LISS-III data of 2004 supported with field survey, the land use map of Jhunjhunun district of arid Rajasthan has been prepared.