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Spatial Metrics based Landscape Structure and Dynamics Assessment for an emerging Indian Megalopolis
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Ramachandra T V 1,2,3,*        and          Bharath H. Aithal 1,2
1 Energy & Wetlands Research Group, Center for Ecological Sciences [CES], 2 Centre for Sustainable Technologies (astra), 3 Centre for infrastructure, Sustainable Transportation and Urban Planning [CiSTUP], Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, Karnataka, 560 012, India
*Corresponding author: cestvr@ces.iisc.ernet.in

Materials used

DATA Year Purpose
Landsat Series MSS (57.5m) 1973 Landcover and Land use analysis
Landsat Series TM (28.5m) and ETM 1989, 1999 Landcover and Land use analysis
IRS p6: Liss-4 MX data (5.6m) 2009 Landcover and Land use analysis
Survey of India (SOI) toposheets of 1:50000 and 1:250000 scales   To Generate boundary and Base layer maps.
Field visit data –captured using GPS   For geo-correcting and generating validation dataset

 

Citation : Ramachandra. T.V., Bharath H. Aithal, 2012. Spatial Metrics based Landscape Structure and Dynamics Assessment for an emerging Indian Megalopolis., International Journal of Advanced Research in Artificial Intelligence (IJARAI), Vol. 1, No. 1, 2012 , pp. 48-57.
* Corresponding Author :
  Dr. T.V. Ramachandra
Energy & Wetlands Research Group, Centre for Ecological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore – 560 012, India.
Tel : 91-80-23600985 / 22932506 / 22933099,      Fax : 91-80-23601428 / 23600085 / 23600683 [CES-TVR]
E-mail : cestvr@ces.iisc.ernet.in, energy@ces.iisc.ernet.in,     Web : http://wgbis.ces.iisc.ernet.in/energy, http://ces.iisc.ernet.in/grass
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