THE STUBBLE BURNING IN THE STATES OF PUNJAB & HARYANA: A GIS BASED SPATIO-TEMPORAL ANALYSIS (from 2012 to 2017)

Spatiotemporal patterns are difficult to portray through traditional methods, but the space-time cube allows time to be analyzed as a third dimension. The spatio-temporal GIS analysis of the MODIS data enables us to know about the varying degree of stubble burning in the regions of Punjab and Haryana. The said activity is one of the crucial reasons for the smog problem that is faced by the NCR (National Capital Region) every winter for last decade. With the help of spatio-temporal tools in GIS, the intensity and trends of the study area, that burns agricultural waste, can be assessed and analyzed.