Land Use and Land Cover Change Mapping: A Spatio Temporal and Correlational Analysis of Ramganjmandi Tehsil, Kota, Rajasthan, India

Abstract

Land use and Land cover signifies the human footprints on the surface of the earth. The current studydepicts the Land use and Land cover change analysis of Ramganjmandi tehsil of Kota district in Rajasthan,for a period of 30 years, 1990 to 2020. Supervised classification in ERDAS imagine software, opting maximumlikelihood classifier is used for the classification of the region into 7 classes. LANDSAT 1-5, 7, 8 Level 1collection were used for the year 1990, 2000, 2011, 2018 and 2020. The region shows a rapid change in theclasses of Mining, Agriculture, Vegetation, and waterbody. There is negative correlation between Miningarea and Vegetation (-0.68), Mining Area and Water Body (-0.86), Mining area and Cropland (-0.11), MiningArea and Open Land (-0.68), Mining area and Built-up area (0.84). The vegetation cover of the region hasalso declined from the year 1990 to 2020.