Estimation of Forest Canopy Cover and Forest Fragmentation Mapping Using Landsat Satellite Data of Silabati River Basin (India)

• DOI: 10.1007/s42489-020-00060-1
• Publication Date: 2020-11-13T12:02:37Z
• Authors: Biswajit Bera; Soumik Saha; Sumana Bhattacharjee
• Keywords: Secondary forest; Forest Inventory; Tree canopy

Abstract Forest is an imperative part of environment but in the recent years, forest areas are being transformed due to population expansion, unscientific urbanization and a rising trend industrialization some countries. Dense forests habitats have been fragmented into patch region. This paper attempts find out canopy or crown density fragmentation as well identify spatiotemporal changing paradigms within Silabati river basin. Canopy Density models important craftsmanship examine health vegetation given area. Various indices such Normalize Difference Vegetation Index, Advanced Shadow Bareness Index ultimately weightage overlay analysis methods adopted determine anthropogenic stress on habitats. Higher weight has assigned dense open area lower weight. The result shows that cover radically reduced between time period 1998 2009. It also stated total 116.549 km 2 degraded during 11 years (1998–2009) with rate 10.59 /year. Meanwhile, 180.02 regained 2019 2009 18 /year possible only implementation policies exclusively execution participatory joint management techniques.