Volume : III, Issue : VI, June - 2013

Deforestation Factors Using Classification Techniques – a Survey

K. Saritha, S. Jyothi, K. R. Manjula, B. Usha Rani4

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Forests serve a number of ecological purposes including important roles in the water cycle, providing habitat for plant which are most useful in medicines. Deforestation is the conversion of forested areas to non–forest land use such as arable land, urban use, logged area or wasteland. It is a process leading to a temporary or permanent deterioration in the density or structure of vegetation cover or its species composition. Deforestation has been attributed to socio–demographic factors, such as population growth and the political economy of class structure, and specific exploitation activities like growth in population, commercial logging, construction of roads, forest farming, agriculture, fuel wood gathering and other factors. But it is most important to know the factors in destruction of forests like the amount and location, the rate and speed and the causes of deforestation.Data collection techniques for forest inventories range from selecting ground surveys to using topographic maps, remote sensing. The composition and viability of a forest may be determined using a combination of remote sensing images and geographical information system. Classification is a method in which it defines small areas, on the image which are representative of each desired land cover category. The main aim of this paperis to study deforestation factors using data mining techniques to analyze the effects on forests loss are direct or indirect.

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K.Saritha, S. Jyothi, K.R. Manjula, B. Usha Rani4 Deforestation Factors Using Classification Techniques – a Survey Indian Journal of Applied Research, Vol.III, Issue.VI June 2013

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