Wildlife habitat mapping using Sentinel-2 imagery of Mehao Wildlife Sanctuary, Arunachal Pradesh, India.

ABSTRACT: Mehao Wildlife Sanctuary, situated in the state of Arunachal Pradesh, is part of an important biodiversity hotspot in the north-eastern part of India in the Himalayas. The current study deals with the identification of important wildlife habitats in the sanctuary. We used a supervised classification technique to delineate these habitats in the sanctuary, which are used by several mammals and bird species encountered during camera trap and sign surveys conducted between November 2017 and May 2020. Satellite images from Sentinel - 2A were used to classify the land use land cover (LULC) of the sanctuary. The LULC information was generated by using a maximum likelihood classifier. We classified a total of thirteen LULC classes, i.e., water, built-up, agriculture, orchard, grassland, bamboo for

SUBMITTER: Ahmad A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10009465 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature