Acknowledgment

We are grateful to (1) APN Network for climate change [ARCP2012-FP03-Sellers] for the financial support to carry-out research—Mega Regional Development and Environmental change in India and China, (2) the NRDMS Division, The Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of India; (3) Indian Institute of Science and (4) Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur for the infrastructure support. We thank (1) United States Geological Survey and (2) National Remote Sensing Centre (NRSC-Hyderabad) for providing temporal remote sensing data. Ms. Revathi N. and Brigit M. Baby worked as interns in this research as part of their respective master’s dissertation work and took part in data mining and spatial data analyses. We thank the participants of stakeholder meeting. And this research was undertaken as per the recommendations of stake-holder interaction meeting involving academia, government agencies and industry.