Land Use / Land Cover Assessment in Nagercoil town, Kanniyakumari District, South India

DOI: 10.22161/ijeab/1.4.58

Abstract:
The present study revealed land use / land cover (LULC) changes during 1992 to 2015 using remote sensing and GIS tools. NRSC land use / land cover thematic maps were referred for classifying the LULC classification. For this assessment, ERDAS image software using maximum likelihood tool in supervised classification is applied. The present study identified land use / land cover pattern of the Nagercoil town is composed of build up land, agriculture land, plantation, crop land and water bodies. Therefore, the land use land cover changes were assessed from 1992 to 2015 and the results show that build up land has increased 8 km2, agriculture land has decreased 3.64 km2, plantation has decreased 2 km2, crop land has decreased 2 km2 and water bodies have decreased 0.36 km2.

Keywords:
Land Use/Land Cover, classification, change detection.

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