Kolleru Lake is India’s largest freshwater lake. In recent years, satellite images of the lake witnessed the fishpond lakes developing, drastically altering the region’s land use and land cover.
The analysis employed Landsat images over the year 2018. A median image was generated using all the cloud-free images available during that year. Then, a Random Forest machine learning classifier was applied to create land use land cover classes. Additionally, the Normalized Difference Water Index was calculated. Ultimately, this led to the detection of fishponds.
This fishpond data was further processed and served through the webGIS architecture to benefit resource managers, stakeholders, and decision-makers.
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