Land Use and Land Cover Change Detection Using Remote Sensing and GIS, A Case Study of Nandhiyar Sub Basin, Tamil Nadu, India (original) (raw)

Land use refers to the main activity of man on the land, which is directly related to land and land resources. The study land use is therefore become a very important tool in the hands of the planners of urban, rural or regional, to assess and forecast land use necessities and to assign apt use to land resources. Remote Sensing and GIS serves as a modern tool for data acquisition and the techniques are applied to resource evaluation including land use studies. The increasing trend of urbanization it affects the agricultural, water resources and ecosystems which are available in the study area. The results show that significant land use changes occurred in the study area Nandhiyar sub basin, between the years 1994, 2004 and 2010 respectively, which may be related to economic development and urban expansion between 1994, 2004 and 2010. The result reveals that the maximum changes were noticed in increase in Tanks, Settlement, wasteland category in the study area.