Timely and accurate information about land cover is an important and extensively used application of remote sensing
data. After successful launch of Landsat 8 is providing a new data source for monitoring land cover, which has the
potential to improve the earth surface features characterization. Mapping of Leaf area Index (LAI) in larger area may be
impossible when we rely on field measurements. Remote sensing data have been continuing efforts to develop different
methods to estimate LAI. In this present study, an attempt has been made to discriminate various land cover features and
empirical equation is used for retrieve biophysical parameter (LAI) for satellite NDVI data. Support vector machine
classification was performed for Muzaffarnagar district using LANDSAT 8 operational land imager data to separate out
major land cover classes (water, fallow, built up, sugarcane, orchard, dense vegetation and other crops). Ground truth
data was collected using JUNO GPS which was used in developing the spectral signatures for each classes. The LAI-NDVI
existing empirical equation is used to prepare LAI map. It is found that the LAI values in village foloda region
maximum LAI pixels in the range 3.10 and above and minimum in the range 1.0 to 1.20. It is also concluded that the
LAI values between 1.70 and 3.10 is having most of the sugarcane crop pixels at maximum vegetative growth stage. It
shows that the sugarcane crop condition in the study area was very good.
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