Remote Sensing and GIS Based Integrated Land Resources Management of Ghagara Watershed

Land resources are the prime anchors required for the sustained quality of human life and the foundation of agricultural development. Land use and land cover (LU/LC) mapping serves as a kind of basic information for land resources inventory. Detecting and analyzing the quantitative changes of the land surface has become necessary and advantageous, because it can result in proper planning, which would ultimately result in improvement in sustainable land resources. Integration of Remote Sensing and GIS is helpful in planning and management of land resources for adoption of location specific technologies. The socio-economic growth of an area depends primarily on continuing preservation and effective utilization of its natural resources. Therefore, an attempt has been made to develop integrated land resources management of watersheds by applying Remote Sensing and GIS technologies. Ghagara watershed in Baleswar district of Odisha, India has been identified as the present study. In the context, an action research method adopted, where land resources were planned for management in an effective way to control land degradation and enhance the long-term sustainability of agricultural land and rural communities through locality-based land use planning and its management at the watershed level.

Ranjit Kumar Behera*1 and Krushna Shankar Pattanaik2 Click here to download file

Research Article | Published online : 29-Jul-2024