"International Journal of Geography, Geology and Environment"

Author(s): Amanpreet Singh

Abstract: Forests known as Lungs of planet Earth remain under pressure due to rapid deforestation across the globe. The quantification of forest land change lags behind even after its ecological importance. The present study makes an effort to detect, discuss, and define the transformation in forest cover in Hoshiarpur Tehsil of Hoshiarpur District, located in Punjab, State of India. There is a vast difference in Forest cover among the States of India, and Punjab is one of the least forested states of the Country. Hoshiarpur District, due to its location in foothills of Shiwalik Range of Himalaya, contains most forest cover of the State. Among the four Tehsils of the district, Hoshiarpur being the largest is selected for research to examine and analyze the Forest cover change between the period of 1990 to 2025. Landsat imagery with 30 meter resolution is explored to detect existing variation between two periods. The images are preprocessed, and False Colour Composition (FCC) is created for the better detection of Vegetation cover in supervised classification. To exemplify the preceding notion, the band combination of band 5, band 4, and band 3 is exploited to generate FCC that represent the vegetation in multiple shades of red colour for better detection and observation.

DOI: 10.22271/27067483.2025.v7.i10a.429

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