Assessment of variation of land use/land cover and its impact on land surface temperature of Asansol subdivision

Abstract

Economic development is a basic need for the growth of the region and it stimulates the rapid transformation of land use and land cover (LULC) units. Urbanization and industrialization are one of the major factors to increase temperature. Asansol sub-division is one of the important industrial and urbanized regions of eastern India. In this study, two different years viz. 1993 and 2018 have taken for the preparation of LULC and land surface temperature map. The kappa coefficient has been implied in this investigation to assess the accuracy of LULC maps. Temperature maps show that summer and winter surface temperature increases at the rate of 0.15°C and 0.19°C per year respectively. The result also reveals that temperature mainly increases due to the presence of urban, industrial and coal mine areas. The changing land use and land cover patterns show that the coal mine areas have been increased by 15% and urban areas also increased by 60%. Some correlations have been prepared to show the relationship between Land Surface Temperature (LST) and other spatial indices like NDBI, NDVI, and NDWI, where negative correlation prevails between LST and NDVI also with NDWI, but positive relation exists between LST and NDBI. Lastly, simulation of temperature for the year 2041 has been prepared, which shows that in the upcoming years’ temperature may be increased up to 0.21°C/year.