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Landsat MSS (1982) and IRS LISS-II (1989) data have been used to study the land use/land cover changes in Dalli-Rajhara iron ore mine area. Supervised classification has been performed on the temporal data to generate land use/land cover maps. Land use/land cover categories generated from IRS LISS-II data of 36 m resolution has been resampled to 80 m and areal statistics have been computed for 2, 4, 8 and 10 km wide strips around Dalli-Rajhara iron ore mine. The environmental impact due to on-going mining activities in the area has been analysed. The results of this study indicate that due to increase in mine-related and agricultural activities, forests have been degraded and also forest areas have been reduced considerably.
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Jeyaram, A., Balasubramanian, R., Murthy, Y.V.N.K. et al. Environmental aspects in Dalli-Rajhara iron ore mine area, M.P. using digital image processing techniques. J Indian Soc Remote Sens 21, 167–177 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02992112
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02992112