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Majuli is the largest inhabited river island in India. It is surrounded by Subansiri on the north, Brahmaputra on the south and a spill channel called Kherkatia Xuti on north east. Majuli has been declared as the 35th district of Assam in May 2017. In other words Majuli is the first river island district in India. Since, time immemorial erosion is a continuous process. Majuli has been facing immense threat due to environmental and social consequences of bank line migration. Erosion have been shrinking its landmass significantly. Along with erosion, other problems that Majuli is facing are flood, breaching of embankments, sand casting, etc. Satellite data are considered as major inputs to this study. This paper enunciates the changes in land area in different years using remote sensing and GIS technology. This has revealed the dramatic change in reduction of land area. The land use land cover area is also shown.
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Devi, D., Phukan, N., Sarma, B. (2018). A Study of Erosional Depositional Activity and Land Use Mapping of Majuli River Island Using Landsat Data. In: Singh, V., Yadav, S., Yadava, R. (eds) Hydrologic Modeling. Water Science and Technology Library, vol 81. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-5801-1_14
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