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Assessment of Forest Cover Dynamics using Forest Canopy Density Model in Sali River Basin: A Spill Channel of Damodar River

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Spatial Modeling in Forest Resources Management

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In a spatio-temporal scale, changing conditions of forest land cover and its detection study is an important concern for sustainable forest management. Nowadays, the forest canopy density (FCD) model has been used for the analysis and management of forest resources through identifying the forest gap areas where afforestation should be started immediately. The present study applied FCD model to detect changes in forest land cover in Sali River basin between the years 2000 and 2018. Moreover, the vegetation indices like Bareness Index (BI), Greenness Vegetation Index (GVI), Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Perpendicular Vegetation Index (PVI), and Shadow Index (SI) along with weighted overlay analysis have been used to prepare FCD map of the Sali river basin. It has been noticed from FCD map that south and north-eastern part of the study area covered with high canopy density in comparison with north and north-western region in the year 2000. Whereas, in the year of 2018, high FCD has been found in the middle portion of the southern region and the rest of the area varies from low to medium FCD.

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  1. Department of Geography, The University of Burdwan, Burdwan, West Bengal, India

    Asish Saha, Subodh Chandra Pal, Indrajit Chowdhuri, Rabin Chakrabortty, Paramita Roy, Biswajit Das & Sadhan Malik

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Saha, A. et al. (2021). Assessment of Forest Cover Dynamics using Forest Canopy Density Model in Sali River Basin: A Spill Channel of Damodar River. In: Shit, P.K., Pourghasemi, H.R., Das, P., Bhunia, G.S. (eds) Spatial Modeling in Forest Resources Management . Environmental Science and Engineering. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-56542-8_15

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