Classification of Urban Landuse and Land Cover (Lulc) of Nashik City (Panchavati Division) in Maharashtra (India)

By : Vinayak B. Kale

Page No: 129-137

Abstract
Urbanization is the global phenomena of this century. Sudden changes of land use and land cover (LULC) in urban areas have become a major issue due to artificial causes such as reduction of green spaces and development of urban heat islands. Monitoring and management plans are required to solve these problems effectively. Land use is the function or functions that humans apply to the land available to them. Land use depend on how governance regulate and control it. This paper purposively selected the area of Panchavati of Nashik city which is the fast developing part of the city. Researcher has tried to classify the urban land use land cover of Nashik City in Panchavati Division. The area statistics of Land Use/ Land Cover classes of an area is very important for future development.

Author :
Vinayak B. Kale :  Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, KTHM College, Gangapur Road, Shivaji Nagar, Nashik, Dist. Nashik, Maharashtra – 422002, India.
 

DOI: https://doi.org/10.32381/ATNAGI.2019.39.01.9