Coastal Erosion in South Surendranagar Coast of Sundarban in India

This book presents the evaluation of coastal erosion hazard through mouza level study in South Surendranagar Coast of Indian Sundarban which includes four mouzas like Gobardhanpur, Plot G 6th Portion, Buraburir Tat and Sitarampur. Remote Sensing and GIS techniques and inferential statistical techniques like Chi-square test and ANOVA (Analysis of Variance one factor analysis) test have been applied for the evaluation to establish rationale of research more scientific. Landsat series satellite images, Topographical map and Cadastral map have been used for analysis. There are also high resolution Google earth images which show the recent changes due to coastal erosion. At last coastal erosion risk zone map has been prepared to predict the vulnerability of coastal area.