Open AccessLand use/ Land cover Change Detection in Auranga River Basin, Jharkhand
Author(s) -
Chnadrakesh Maurya,
Vikram Sharma
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
national geographical journal of india
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 0027-9374
DOI - 10.48008/ngji.1729
Subject(s) - land cover , land use , land information system , land development , geospatial analysis , land management , environmental resource management , geography , change detection , remote sensing , drainage basin , environmental science , hydrology (agriculture) , cartography , ecology , geology , biology , geotechnical engineering
Land use is a man-made dynamic process in which human uses land resource to fulfil their various economic, social and cultural needs and at the same time it also provides a base for development. The proper management needed for sustainable development of land can improve the eco-system and its productivity in a particular geographical region. The present study focuses on spatio-temporal changes in land use and land cover pattern in Auranga river basin of Jharkhand using geospatial approach. Supervised classification technique was applied in this study to detect land use/ land cover changes. The main objective of the study is to analyse temporal change of land use/ land cover pattern during 1996, 2007 and 2018 using various dataset as well as other ancillary data. The result reveales both increase and decrease of the different land use/ land cover classes from 1996 to 2018.