Overview

Land Use Land Cover (LULC) maps of an area provide information to help users to understand the current landscape. LULC information enables the monitoring of temporal dynamics of agricultural ecosystems, forest conversions, surface water bodies, etc. The LULC maps obtained using the RS & GIS can help in 

• Natural resource management
• Wildlife habitat protection
• Urban growth / encroachment
• Routing and logistics planning for seismic / exploration/ extraction activities
• Damage delineation and estimation (tornadoes, flooding, volcanic, seismic, fire)
• Administrative boundaries for tax and property evaluation
• Features detection - identification of landing strips, roads, clearings, bridges, land/water interface.