BetaBetaDataset
To assess the distribution of land cover and land use in India.
Annual Land use / Land cover mapping is carried out at 1 : 250000 scale and net sown area is estimated apart from generation of the Landuse / Land cover information. Land use / land cover information is generated once in 5 years at 1: 50000 scale. Land use / Land cover is generated at 1: 10000 scale which is useful for water land resources planning at village / taluk level.
This dataset entails built up, current fallow, deciduous forest, degraded/scrub forest, double/triple crop, evergreen forest, grassland, kharif crop, littoral swamp, plantation, rabi crop, rann, shifting cultivation, snow cover, wasteland, waterbodies max, waterbodies min, and zaid crop.
Satellite imagery