IJFANS International Journal of Food and Nutritional Sciences

ISSN PRINT 2319 1775 Online 2320-7876

Assessment and monitoring of the land degradation process in Jaitaran Taluka, Pali District, Rajasthan, using remote sensing data

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Kiran Singh,Dr.Shital H.Shukla

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Desertification is the process of soil erosion occurring in arid, semi-arid, and dry sub-humid regions of the world. Which would end the productivity of the land and turn it into a desert, which would affect the standard of living of billions of people. About 1/3 of the total geographical area of India is subject to Land Degradation. Monitoring and evaluation are primary requirements for tackling and mitigating the problems of land degradation and desertification. The objective of the present paper is to monitor the status of desertification and provide information on the local extent of those that have attained a severe state of desertification in the past 28 years. By analysing 28 years of satellite data for the years 1994 (Landsat-5) and 2022 (Sentinel-2), a desertification map of some parts of the western Indian state of Rajasthan, district Pali, has been prepared. It has been monitored and evaluated over a period of 28 years, resulting in a 28 -year desertification status map to tackle the problems of desertification at the ground level and to plan and implement those suggestion.

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