The current issue of Sahyadri e-news (Issue XCII) reports the interplay of land cover changes with land surface temperature (LST) patterns across all agroclimatic zones in India. LULC analysis spanning 2001 to 2022, using MODIS data, reveals agriculture as the dominant land use class in ten of the fifteen agroclimatic zones, while built-up areas are rapidly expanding in select zones.Read more...

IISc-EIACP[ENVIS CENTRE],
Energy & Wetlands Research Group[CES TE-15]

Centre for Ecological Sciences,
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560012,INDIA

Email:tvr@iisc.ac.in, envis.ces@iisc.ac.in
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