**Acknowledgements**

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**Figure 4.**

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*classification method" on Figure 4c.*

*(a) IKONOS image showing urban woodland, building, water body and fallow categories, (b) classified image*

*(a) IKONOS image showing fallow, built-up area, vegetation and bare soil categories, (b) classified image obtained by applying "proposed classification method" on Figure 4a, (c) IKONOS image showing vegetation, fallow, built-up area and water bodies categories, (d) classified image obtained by applying "proposed*

*obtained by applying "proposed classification method" on Figure 3a.*

*Geographic Information Systems in Geospatial Intelligence*

The author sincerely thanks the Director, NRSC, Hyderabad, India and CGM, RCs, NRSC, Hyderabad, India for their support. The author is also grateful to the former GM, RRSC-East for support.
