ENVIS Technical Report: 85 January 2015
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Vanishing Lakes Interconnectivity & Violations in Valley Zone: Lack of Co-ordination among Para-State Agencies
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Energy and Wetlands Research Group, Centre for Ecological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore – 560012, India.
*Corresponding author: cestvr@ces.iisc.ernet.in
Results and discussion

Land use: Land use Dynamics: Gaussian MLC classifier was used, the land use (figure 3, Table 3) results shows that Built up area in the catchment has increased from 22.14% in 2003 to over 46.2% compromising the laws of the city developmental authorities, CDP, MoEF.

Land use

2003

2014

Built up

22.14%

46.62%

Vegetation

23.23%

5.51%

Water

2.61%

2.89%

Others

52.01%

44.98%

Table 3: Land use in the catchment
Temporal remote sensing data (Google earth data) were compared in order to visualize, understand the land use dynamics in the catchment with respect to the acquired satellite data (Figure 4).