Acknowledgement

We thank Indian Institute of Science for financial and infrastructure support. NRSA, Hyderabad is acknowledged for providing LISS-III data. MODIS data were downloaded from http://glcf.umiacs.umd.edu/index.shtml. Google earth data (http://earth.google.com) was used as reference data for image analysis. We are grateful to Prof. N. V. Joshi for valuable suggestions during the spatial data analysis and model development.