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Title: Estimation of Effective Impervious Surface Area of Cochin using Satellite Images
Authors: Harindranathan Nair, M V
Smitha, S V
Amarnath, A
Chitra, S V
Keywords: Urbanization
Impervious surface
Remote Sensing and GIS
Issue Date: Feb-2013
Publisher: International Science Congress Association
Abstract: Urbanization refers to the process in which an increasing proportion of a population lives in cities and suburbs. Urbanization fuels the alteration of the Land use/Land cover pattern of the region including increase in built-up area, leading to imperviousness of the ground surface. With increasing urbanization and population pressures; the impervious areas in the cities are increasing fast. An impervious surface refers to an anthropogenic ally modified surface that prevents water from infiltrating into the soil. Surface imperviousness mapping is important for the studies related to water cycling, water quality, soil erosion, flood water drainage, non-point source pollution, urban heat island effect and urban hydrology. The present study estimates the Total Impervious Area (TIA) of the city of Kochi using high resolution satellite image (LISS IV, 5m. resolution). Additionally the study maps the Effective Impervious Area (EIA) by coupling the capabilities of GIS and Remote Sensing. Land use/Land cover map of the study area was prepared from the LISS IV image acquired for the year 2012. The classes were merged to prepare a map showing pervious and impervious area. Supervised Maximum Likelihood Classification (Supervised MLC),which is a simple but accurate method for image classification, is used in calculating TIA and an overall classification accuracy of 86.33% was obtained. Water bodies are 100% pervious, whereas urban built up area are 100% impervious. Further based on percentage of imperviousness, the Total Impervious Area is categorized into various classes
Description: Research Journal of Recent Sciences, Vol. 2(ISC-2012), 241-244 (2013)
URI: http://dyuthi.cusat.ac.in/purl/4647
ISSN: 2277-2502
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