Shella, Meghalaya

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Sparse forest Water

Crop
Dry Channel

Dense forest
Barren land
 Scatter plots of test sites of different landcover
classes in various spectral bands
Barren land
80

60
Digital
Number40

20

0
0 20 40 60
Band 1 Band 2 Band 3
Pixel Number

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Spectral response of Landcover classes in FCC
(false color composite)
Sr. No. Landcover (tone/color in FCC)
Class
1 Dense Dark Red tone

2 Sparse Brownish-Red and Subdued

Tone
3 Crop
Pinkish to Moderate Red
4 Water
Stage; typical pattern
5 Bright light tones

6 Dry Channel Pale white tone

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Land cover map of Shella region using IRS P6 LISS III
image of 9/3/2010
Area statistics of the landcovers derived using
IRS P6 LISS III images

Class January 7, January 1, March 9,

2008 2009 2010

Dense forest 144.00 141.93 130.69

Sparse forest 82.10 77.51 94.81
Crop 25.30 32.66 39.94
Water 0.902 0.88 1.51
Barren land 60.02 60.04 44.05
Dry Channel 2.47 1.77 3.81
Observations