Habitat identity crisis caused by the riparian wetland squeeze in Tangon River Basin, Barind Region, India

• Published in: Spatial information research (Online) Vol. 26; no. 5; pp. 507 - 516
• Main Authors: Chakraborty, Rajsekhar, Talukdar, Swapan, Basu, Tithankar, Pal, Swades
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore Springer Singapore 01.10.2018; 대한공간정보학회
• Subjects: Database Management; Earth and Environmental Science; Geographical Information Systems/Cartography; Geography; Remote Sensing/Photogrammetry; 공학일반; Discharge curtailing; Agriculture extension and Wetland loss; Flood plain wetland; Water presence frequency approach

The present paper intends to delineate flood plain wetland in Tangon river basin (1988–2016) from Landsat images and to investigate the nature and causes behind squeezing wetland and losses. From the analysis it is found that the total recognized average wetland area in pre monsoon season and post m...