4.0 CONCLUSIONS

At the national scale, the study revealed the usefulness of NOAA AVHRR data in the assessment of landcover information. This information when compared to historic landcover data, became useful to detect changes in landuse pattern, such as increase in the extent of agricultural lands or decrease in forest areas. It can thus be used as a baseline data for future monitoring. As for the future monitoring of landcover, one would find cloud free NOAA AVHRR LAC data as far back as say, 1984-85 when NOAA-9 was launched. Latest data pertaining to say, 1996 would give access not only to the up-to-date landcover status, it will also help in ascertaining a trend of the changing landcover scenario over a fairly large period of time.

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