Abstract
Landuse/landcover change detection is an essential process in monitoring and managing natural resources and urban development because it provides quantitative analysis of the spatial pattern, distribution, and variation of the physical and cultural landscape features. Damaturu town became the capital of Yobe State when it was created in 1991. Since then, Damaturu has been experiencing rapid changes in the landuse/landcover types due to urban expansion, economic development, and social transformation in the town. Therefore, there is a need to examine the trend and pattern of these changes for proper planning and development of the town. This study examined the dynamics of landuse/landcover change of Damaturu town from 1986 to 2009 using Remote Sensing and Geographic Information System techniques. The following satellite imageries of Damaturu Township were obtained and processed for the analysis: LandSat MSS – 1985 and 1991; Landsat ETM – 1999, and Nig-sat1 ETM of 2009. The images were resampled, rectified and georeferenced to the UTM map projection. A supervised classification approach and maximum likelihood algorithm was used for landuse evaluation and mapping from Landsat data with spatial
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