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important from the point of view of addressing changing pattern in land use/land cover
in addition to overall reporting on the nation’s land use/land cover scenario.

Methodology

• The scope of work under the 3rd Cycle Land Use/Land Cover project was to update
land use/land cover vector of 2011-12 for Maharashtra State using ortho-rectified three
season Resource-sat LISS III data of 2015–16.
• Areas with major changes were identified and depiction to arrive at land use/land cover
changes from 2005-06 to 2011-12 to 2015-16.
• Preparation of report containing category-wise change statistics; spatial distribution of
change and other ancillary information like ground truth point file along with ground
photos.

Deliverables

• Seamless land use/land cover layer of 2015-16 for the State and each of the districts
in geodatabase format (.mdb and .gdb) along with statistics and cross-matrix.
• Land use/land cover change map between 2011-12 and 2015-16 along with change
statistics and cross-matrix table;
• Map compositions; point layer in GIS status report for the State.
• Geo-tagged photographs especially for the LULC change areas (to be uplinked to
Bhuvan through mobile application provided by NRSC).
• Administrative layer containing district boundary, district name in GIS format.
• Base layer containing major roads, railway line and drainage.
• District-wise/state-wise reports, with specific reference to information to LULC change
areas.

Beneficiary

Various Maharashtra State Government Departments

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