A spatio-temporal land use and land cover reconstruction for India from 1960-2010.

ABSTRACT: In recent decades India has undergone substantial land use/land cover change as a result of population growth and economic development. Historical land use/land cover maps are necessary to quantify the impact of change at global and regional scales, improve predictions about the quantity and location of future change and support planning decisions. Here, a regional land use change model driven by district-level inventory data is used to generate an annual time series of high-resolution gridded land use/land cover maps for the Indian subcontinent between 1960-2010. The allocation procedure is based on statistical analysis of the relationship between contemporary land use/land cover and various spatially explicit covariates. A comparison of the simulated map for 1985 against remotely-sensed

SUBMITTER: Moulds S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6091275 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature