Impact of Karakoram Highway on Land use and Agricultural Development of Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan
Salman Anwar1, 2*, Farhan Anwar Khan3 and Atta-ur-Rahman4
1Government Superior Science College, Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan; 2Area Study Center, University of Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan; 3Department of Animal Health, The University of Agriculture, Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan; 4Department of Geography, University of Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.
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Figure 1
Location map of KKH and Gilgit-Baltistan modified after Said, 2005.
Figure 2
Landsat 5 multi-spectral image of District Hunza-Nagar, Gilgit and Diamer of September/November 1996.
Figure 3
Landsat 5 multi-spectral classified image of District Hunza-Nagar, Gilgit and Diamer of September/November 1996
Figure 4
Gilgit-Baltistan, Land Use Land Cover of three sample districts 1996.
Figure 5
Multi-spectral pre-processed Landsat 8 image of three Sample districts of Gilgit-Baltistan of September/November 2016
Figure 6
Gilgit-Baltistan, Landsat 8 classified image of Land Use Land Cover of three sample districts of November 2016.
Figure 7
Land Use/Land Cover of the Study area 2016 as per the Landsat image of November 2016.
Figure 8
Gilgit-Baltistan, Land Use Land Cover Change Detection in three sample districts from 1996 and 2016
Figure 9
Land Use Land Cover Changes in three sample districts, 1996 and 2016.
Figure 10
Gilgit-Baltistan, Changes in the number of livestock in 1996 and 2006 as per livestock and agriculture census.