期刊名称：International Journal of Humanities & Social Science Studies
印刷版ISSN：2349-6711
电子版ISSN：2349-6959
出版年度：2016
卷号：2
期号：5
页码：266-276
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出版社：Scholar Publications
摘要：Study of Land use and Land cover (LULC) has great relevance for find out the relationship between anthropogenic and natural territorial ecosystem. Investigation on spatio-temporal change of land use is a very important aspect to evaluate proper man-land interaction in the paradigm of sustainable development in human civilization. The LULC study through Remote Sensing (RS) and Geographical Information System (GIS) technique helps to know the real time information on spatio-temporal change of natural and manmade aspects e.g. forest cover/density, water body, soil-moisture, settlement/ built up areas and several environmental problems like forest fire, heat islands etc. The study has evaluated land use and land cover and its change over the time period (1990-2014) in Gandheswari River basin. A multispectral and multi-temporal landsat image from three time period (1990, 2002, and 2014) has been classified for the investigation. An attempt has made to discuss the possible influential factors for the LULC changes and change detection matrix has been prepared to analysis the conversion of particular land use/cover to another land use/ cover. In this study, it is found that water body, agriculture, vegetation cover have been declined by 4.7, 6.5 and 4.1 % respectively but settlement area has been increased (13.1%) which may lead to destruction of vegetation, agricultural lands and ground water regime. Key words: Land Use/Cover, Multispectral & multi-temporal image, Change detection matrix, Gandheswari River basin.
