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Legend Gullied and/ or ravinous land (Medium) Gullied and/ or ravinous land (Deep) Land with Dense Scrub Land with Open Scrub North Sikkim Waterlogged and Marshy land (Permanent) NEPAL Waterlogged and Marshy land (Seasonal) Land Affected by salinity / alkalinity (Moderate) Land Affected by salinity / alkalinity (Strong) Shifting Cultivation - Current Jhum Shifting Cultivation - Abandoned Jhum CHINA Under-utilised/degraded forest (Scrub domin) Under-utilised/degraded forest (Agriculture) Degraded pastures/grazing land Degraded land under plantation crop Sands - Riverine Sands - Coastal Sands - Desertic Sands - Semi Stab:- Stab > 40m Sands - Semi Stab:- Stab 15-40m Mining Wastelands Industrial Wastelands West Sikkim 11; 3% Barren Rocky Area Snow Covered/ Glacial Area East Sikkim Non Wasteland Area South Sikkim 22; 34% Water ways District Boundary BHUTAN 23; 63% Railways Major Roads
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Land Use & Cover Monitoring Divn. State Council for Science & Technology Dept. of Land Resources LRUMG,Remote Sensing Application Total Geog. Area (TGA): Source: Wasteland Maps: 2008-09 on 1:50,000 scale, Government of Sikkim Min. of Rural Development 7096.00 sq. km. National Remote Sensing Centre Total wasteland area : Three seasons IRS P6 LISS-III data of Kharif(Oct/Nov-2015), Development Area G - Wing, Nirman Bhawan 3294.79 sq. km. ISRO, Dept. of Space, GOI Wasteland Percentage: Rabi (Jan/Feb-2016) and Zaid (April/May-2016) & Ground truth Gangtok – 737 101 GOI, New Delhi - 110 011 46.43 Partner Inst. Executed By
Balanagar, Hyderabad - 500037 Sponsored by SIKKIM Wastelands Area Change Matrix : 2008-09 and 2015-16
PAGE 185 PAGE 186 TGA -Total Geographical Area Note: “--”DenotesthisClassisnotexistingintheDistrict/State Wastelands AreaChanges–2008-09and2015-16 Sikkim contd... Wastelands AreaChanges–2008-09and2015-16 Sikkim South Sikkim South Sikkim North Sikkim North Sikkim West Sikkim West Sikkim Grand Total Grand Total East Sikkim East Sikkim 8. Landaffected bysalinity/alkalinity(Strong) 7. Landaffected bysalinity/alkalinity(Medium) 6. Waterlogged andMarshyland(Seasonal) 5. Waterlogged andMarshyland(Permanent) 4. LandwithOpenScrub 3. LandwithDenseScrub 2. Gulliedand/orravinousland(Deep) 1. Gulliedand/orravinousland(Medium) District District WL_Class WL_Class 2015-16 2008-09 2015-16 2008-09 2015-16 2008-09 2015-16 2008-09 2015-16 2008-09 2015-16 2008-09 2015-16 2008-09 2015-16 2008-09 2015-16 2008-09 2015-16 2008-09 Change Change Change Change Change Change Change Change Change Change 14 ------1 ------2 15 ------3 16 ------16. Sands-Coastal 15. Sands-Riverine 14. Degradedlandunderplantationcrop 13. Degradedpastures/grazingland 12. Under-utilised/degradedforest(Agriculture) 11. Under-utilised/degradedforest(Scrubdomin) 10. ShiftingCultivation- Abandoned Jhum 9. 16.30 18.67 -2.37 -2.40 0.00 0.49 0.49 0.00 1.72 1.72 4.95 7.35 0.03 9.14 9.11 4 Shifting Cultivation-CurrentJhum 17 ------5 18 ------6 19 ------2008-09 Wastelands statisticsarerevisedversion. 7 20 ------8 21 ------9 1116.92 965.07 546.70 109.43 313.17 803.74 127.08 133.41 418.37 -98.87 10.56 14.21 14.21 -6.33 23. Snowcovered/Glacialarea 22. BarrenRocky/Stonywaste 21. Industrialwastelands 20. MiningWastelands 19. Sands-SemiStab.-Stab15-40m 18. Sands-SemiStab.-Stab>40m 17. Sands-Desertic 0.00 22 10 ------2066.38 2340.59 1818.69 2202.32 -274.21 -383.63 115.18 106.78 101.01 103.20 29.31 29.31 8.40 0.00 2.19 23 33.11 92.09 58.98 23.49 14.32 21.58 15.84 28.93 24.63 13.91 18.10 Area insq.km 9.17 5.74 4.30 4.19 11 3294.79 3225.09 2820.74 2784.10 Total 266.24 255.00 141.00 124.92 69.70 11.24 66.81 61.07 36.64 16.08 5.74 12 ------TGA 7096 1166 4226 750 954 0.00 3.10 3.10 13 ------