Abstract
Land use and land cover is an important factor in understanding the relations of human activities with the environment and thus is necessary to be able to simulate change. The focus of this paper is to map and study the land use and land cover pattern and change among 2002 and 2013 satellite imagery. It also produces a land use land cover maps of Parbhani city in Maharashtra at two epochs in order to detect the changes that take place in the diverse natural resources. After analysis of the image, supervised maximum likelihood algorithm was used to classify the imagery into different land use categories. Five land use classes have been recognized as vegetation, fallow land, barren land, residential area, and water body. The classification of image shows major change in residential areas. The change detection analysis shows that residential area in 2002 is 7.34 % and 14.25 % in 2013, it has been enlarged by 7.11 % similarly change detection for remaining areas has been done. The information on urban growth, land use land cover change study is extremely useful to local government and urban planners for the betterment for future plans of sustainable progress of the city.
Highlights
The land use/land cover of a region is a conclusion of natural and socio-economic factors and their consumption by man in time and space [1].The term “land use” and “land cover” are often used simultaneously to depict maps that afford information about the types of features existing on the Earth’s surface
Land cover is an important input constraint for a number of agricultural, ecological models, which compose necessary tools for enlargement planning and management of natural resources in the area.To use land optimally, it is necessary to have information on existing land use/ land cover and the capability to monitor the dynamics of land use resulting out of changing demands
The data have been collected from the National Remote Sensing Centre (NRSC) Hyderabad
Summary
The land use/land cover of a region is a conclusion of natural and socio-economic factors and their consumption by man in time and space [1].The term “land use” and “land cover” are often used simultaneously to depict maps that afford information about the types of features existing on the Earth’s surface. Land cover refers to the physical individuality of Earth’s surface, which is captured by vegetation, soil, water bodies and other physical features of the land. Land use refers to the way in which land has been used by humans and their habitat, usually for economic activities [2].
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