Texture feature is a predominant feature in land cover classification of remotely sensed images. In this study, texture features were extracted using the proposed multivariate descriptor, Multivariate Ternary Pattern (MTP). The soft classifiers such as Fuzzy k-Nearest Neighbor (Fuzzy k-NN), Support Vector Machine (SVM) and Extreme Learning Machine (ELM) were used along with the proposed multivariate descriptor for performing land cover classification. The experiments were conducted on IRS P6 LISS-IV data and the results were evaluated based on error matrix, classification accuracy and Kappa statistics. From the experiments, it was found that the proposed descriptor with SVM classifier gave 93.04% classification accuracy.