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1. NATIONAL WASTELANDS CHANGE ANALYSIS (2015-16)

A. Introduction

National Remote Sensing Centre, Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO),
Department of Space, Government of India in collaboration with different State,

Central Government Departments and Institutions has completed four mapping
exercises of wastelands for the country using remotely sensed satellite data on 1 :

50,000 scale. Since the launch of wastelands mapping project, various

government agencies have taken up the reclamation of wastelands particularly
through the implementation of watershed programmes in the country by consulting

these database. All the wastelands mapping exercises were taken up by using
various mapping methods, different map projection systems and varying datasets.

All these have contributed to difficulty in depicting the wasteland changes to be

shown spatially.

B. Objectives

1. Update the wasteland vector layer of 2008-09 using three-season satellite

data of 2015 -16.

2. Identify and depict areas with major wasteland change between 2008-09
and 2015 -16.

3. Preparation of Wastelands category y-wise spatial change statistics and
summation in the form of report and atlas.

C. Methodology

The new initiative on Wasteland Change analysis is aimed at reporting the
changes in wastelands in India using IRS LISS III 2008-09 and 2015-16 data sets.

This project is sponsored by the Ministry of Rural Development, Govt of India. The
wasteland change analysis has carried out using online BHUVAN tool.

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