Monitoring urban Land use land cover change by Multi-Temporal remote Sensing information in Howrah city, India
Author Affiliations
- 1 Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Kharagpur – 721302, WB, INDIA
Int. Res. J. Earth Sci., Volume 1, Issue (5), Pages 1-6, October,25 (2013)
Abstract
Land use and land cover (LULC) change has become a central component in current strategies for managing natural resources and monitoring environmental changes. This paper examines the urban LULC changes that have been taken place in Howrah city, India, for the last two decades due to the rapid urbanization. This work mainly emphasizes on understanding of LULC change detection analysis using LANDSAT MSS in 1975, TM in 1989, and ETM+ in 2000) and LISS-III (2009) high resolution imagery for the 34 years time span. Unsupervised classification techniques have been utilized for delineating five different classes: agriculture land, built up, vegetation, water body and wet land. LULC changes that occurred in this area suggesting that the spatial change of an impervious surface is a useful indicator of identifying spatial extent, intensity and potentially type of urban land use and land cover changes. It is also inferred from the analysis that land changes was taken place in this area mainly in form of built up land during specified time period.
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