Urban Land Use/Land Cover Changes in Gurugram District, Haryana Using Landsat Images

By : Suman Chauhan , Sunil Kumar

Page No: 388-398

Abstract
Land use is directly responsible for changes occurring in the environment. It plays an important role in sustainability linked with socio-economic development since it affects natural resources like soil, vegetation, water resources and biodiversity. Urbanization is a kind of land use which is linked with land cover changes associated with growth of population and economy of a nation. The aim of this study is to extract reliable Land Use/ Land Cover information using secondary data and detection of changes appeared between 1990 to 2017 in Gurugram (erstwhile Gurgaon) district of the Haryana state in Indian sub continent using data collected through Remotes Sensing and Geographic Information System (GIS) techniques. For the purpose of identification as well as demarcation of land use/Land cover we use to classify the satellite imageries which is a challenge before the users due to similarity in land use/ land coverfeatures. The Maximum Likelihood Classifier (MLC) was first applied to Landsat05 imagery of 1990 and Landsat-08 (OLI) imagery of 2011 with a resolution of 30 mts and classified as water bodies, vegetation, agricultural land, others land and built-up area. The study exhibits change in the areas. It shows increase in built-up area, other lands, waterbodies classes, decreasing trend in agricultural land and vegetation cover over the period of twenty seven years.

Authors :
Suman Chauhan : Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, Kurukshetra-136119.
Sunil Kumar : Research Scholar, Department of Geography, Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra-136119.
 

DOI: https://doi.org/10.32381/ATNAGI.2020.40.02.12