Fig 1.
(a) India with Rajasthan state highlighted in yellow colour (b) SSL amid Nagaur, Jaipur and Ajmer districts (c) True Colour Composite of SSL prepared using Sentinel data set of 7 May 2021.
Fig 2.
Methodology flowchart.
Fig 3.
Location of field points.
Fig 4.
(a) & (b) construction sites, (c) & (d) surface wells, salt pans with illegal electrical cables (e) & (f) domestic pollution sources, and (g) & (h) historical photographs of lake and salt production.
Table 1.
Waterbirds counts and comparison.
Fig 5.
1963, 1972, 1981, 1992, 2009 and 2019 of SSL.
Fig 6.
Graph of LULC change.
Table 2.
LULC change area from 1972–2019 (area in km2).
Table 3.
LULC dynamic degree K (percentage).
Table 4.
LULC transition matrix from 1981–2019.
Fig 7.
Mapping soil quality parameters.
Fig 8.
Mapping water quality parameters.
Fig 9.
Maps of future prediction.
Fig 10.
(a) gain and loss of LULC (b) net change between 2029 and 2059 and (c-j) contributions of each class to net changes.
Fig 11.
Spatial trend representation.