Abstract
Understanding changes in land use land cover is essential managing and monitoring natural resources and development, particularly where urbanization is expanding. In present study, describes land use/land cover (LU/LC) mapping and change detection analysis of Mettupalayam taluk of Coimbatore district in Tamil Nadu. Estimation in ArcGIS for LU/LC classification from LANSAT images, is the best method for classifier for the different features were used to classify the satellite images are used to classify the land use/land cover change s for the given period. The results indicated that land cover changes have occurred in slight decrease in forests, vegetation and mountain and a corresponding tremendous increase in settlement. The comparison of LU/LC in 2000 and 2019 derived from topo-sheet and satellite imagery interpretation indicates that the settlement area shows variations. Settlement is an area of human habitation, which has a cover of buildings and a network of transport and other civic amenities, due to increasing population and the land is converted into habitation. The (Urbanization) settlement/ built-up areas have increased by 7.29% in 2000 while in 2019 it has increased to 16.43 %. It is found urban area increased due to population growth cum rapid economic progress.
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