Recent land use/land cover changes in the floodplain of the highly regulated river Yamuna upstream of Delhi

Radha Raman, Brij Gopal

Abstract


This paper present data on the changes in river morphology and in the land use/land cover of the remaining floodplain over a 85-km stretch upstream of Delhi.

Keywords


Floodplain agriculture, fluvial morphology, River channel morphology, River regulation, Sinuosity, Riparian vegetation,

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