Assessment of land use/land cover change detection of Mettupalayam Taluk, Coimbatore district, Tamil Nadu, India, using RS and GIS
1 CWR, Department of Civil Engineering, CEG, Anna University, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.
2 AC & RI, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Vazhavachabur, Thiruvanamalai, Tamil Nadu, India.
Research Article
GSC Biological and Pharmaceutical Sciences, 2023, 22(01), 241-246.
Article DOI: 10.30574/gscbps.2023.22.1.0023
Publication history:
Received on 04 December 2022; revised on 19 January 2023; accepted on 21 January 2023
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.
Keywords:
Land Use/ Land Covers; Mettupalayam Taluk; Changes detections
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