Land Use/Land Cover Changes over a District in Northern India using Remote Sensing and GIS and their Impact on Society and Environment

Meer, Mohammad Suhail; Mishra, Anoop Kumar

doi:10.1007/s12594-020-1407-2

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“…LULC changes plays a significant role in spatio-temporal environmental stability since it has a linkage with local, regional, and global climate conditions, carbon cycle, biodiversity stability, clean water, agriculture, and food security [27][28][29]. Thus, it is vital for understanding of the environmental change process and the problem that must be solved if living conditions and standards are to be improved sustainably [30].…”

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Analysing land use/land cover changes and its dynamics using remote sensing and GIS in Gubalafito district, Northeastern Ethiopia

2021

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Mapping and quantifying the status of Land use/Land cover (LULC) changes and drivers of change are important for identifying vulnerable areas for change and designing sustainable ecosystem services. This study analyzed the status of LULC changes and key drivers of change for the last 30 years through a combination of remote sensing and GIS with the surveying of the local community understanding of LULC patterns and drivers in the Gubalafto district, Northeastern Ethiopia. Five major LULC types (cultivated and settlement, forest cover, grazing land, bush land and bare land) from Landsat images of 1986, 2000, and 2016 were mapped. The results demonstrated that cultivated and settlement constituted the most extensive type of LULC in the study area and increased by 9% extent. It also revealed that a substantial expansion of bush land and bare land areas during the past 30 years. On the other hand, LULC classes that has high environmental importance such as grazing land and forest cover have reduced drastically through time with expanding cultivated and settlement during the same period. The grazing land in 1986 was about 11.1% of the total study area, and it had decreased to 5.7% in 2016. In contrast, cultivated and settlement increased from 45.6% in 1986 to 49.5% in 2016. Bush land increased from 14.8 to 21% in the same period, while forest cover declined from 8.9 to 2% in the same period. The root causes for LULC changes in this particular area include population growth, land tenure insecurity, and common property rights, persistent poverty, climate change, and lack of public awareness. Therefore, the causes for LULC changes have to be controlled, and sustainable resources use is essential; else, these scarce natural resource bases will soon be lost and will no longer be able to play their contribution in sustainable ecosystem services. Article Highlights Forest cover and grazing lands declined rapidly. Fluctuating trends in cultivated and settlement, bush land and bare land. Population pressure and associated demand are the main causes behind LULC changes in the study area.

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Analysing land use/land cover changes and its dynamics using remote sensing and GIS in Gubalafito district, Northeastern Ethiopia

2021

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“…In recent years, with the continuous improvement of urbanization level and the change of population quantity and spatial distribution structure, the problems of resource environment and ecological security brought by land use change have become increasingly prominent (Hou et al, 2022;Siddik et al, 2022). At present, discussing the dynamic change process of land use from the perspective of coupling between human activities and the natural environment, and the dynamic change law of land use (Solomon et al, 2020) as well as its impact on the environment and ecology (Meer and Mishra, 2020;Msofe et al, 2020;Yang et al, 2022) from different levels is the focus of many scholars. However, it should be pointed out that, this kind of research results mainly came from the sociallly and economically developed areas (Guo et al, 2009;Lu et al, 2019), the ecologically environment fragile zones (Zhou et al, 2016;Zhao et al, 2018), and the urban fringe areas (Yang et al, 2011;Cui et al, 2013;Li et al, 2018).…”

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Spatiotemporal differences of land use pattern between mountainous areas and basin areas at township scale: A case study of Yuxi City

Zhou

Xie

et al. 2022

Front. Environ. Sci.

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Land use/land cover change is an important carrier for the study of human-land relationship. Yuxi City is a typical area of with alternating mountain and basin landforms, forming a special human-land system with “mountains” and “basins” as the core elements. Taking 75 towns in Yuxi City, Yunnan Province as a case study, this paper uses a comprehensive evaluation model of land use/land cover change and related analysis methods to analyze the changes of land use pattern in mountainous areas and basin areas respectively from 1995 to 2018, and to reveal their spatial differences and its influencing factors. The results show that: 1) The dynamic evolution of land use in the mountainous area and the basin area presented obvious stage characteristics. From 1995 to 2005, the average comprehensive dynamic degree of land use in the mountainous area was 1.7861, which was significantly higher than the 1.7033 in the basin area. The average comprehensive dynamic degree of land use in mountainous areas from 2005 to 2018 was 1.1284, which was significantly lower than 1.9427 in the basin area. 2) From 1995 to 2018, the land use degree and the comprehensive dynamic degree of land use continued to rise in the basin area, while the mountainous area showed a trend of rising first and then falling. The overall change trend of land use depletion in the mountainous area was consistent with that in the basin area, but the mountainous area was always higher than that in the basin area. 3) The land use change in mountainous areas and basin areas was mainly reflected in the difference of natural factors and socio-economic fators. The radiation and agglomeration functions of the basin area have always attracted people to migrate from the mountains to the basin, which was beneficial to the ecological restoration of the vegetation in the mountains. Since the mountainous area and the basin area are geographically adjacent, the coupling and coordination of the two is the premise and foundation for the sustainable development of the region. This causal relationship of land use changes provides a reliable basis for the regulation of mountain-basin human-land coupling relationship.

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“…Although the potential of satellite-based data as a platform for creating important information for land use/land cover (LULC) has been widely recognized since the mid-seventies, the potential of satellite-based data as a platform for creating important information for LULC has yet to be fully realized (Alphan 2003;Erener et al 2012;Vorovencii et al 2013;Badreldin & Goossens 2014;Hütt et al 2016;Onim et al 2020). Over the past few decades, land use/land cover mapping and change detection techniques have been developed and deployed all over the world (Mucher et al 2000;Mengistu & Salami 2007;Sahebjalal & Dashtekian 2013;Agaton et al 2016;Mishra et al 2020;Abualtayef et al 2021). Various land use categories are rapidly replacing land cover around the world (Verma & Raghubanshi 2019).…”

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“…Climate, biogeochemical cycles, energy fluxes, and people's livelihoods are all affected by changes in land cover condition and composition (Wang et al 2012;Samie et al 2020). As a result of rising population and urbanization in India's Himalayan states, large areas of forest cover are being converted to various land uses, resulting in considerable soil erosion (Mishra et al 2020) Recent analysis, however, indicates that forest cover is increasing in numerous Himalayan locations (Mondal & Zhang 2018). India is rated ninth among countries with the biggest annual forest area change (2010)(2011)(2012)(2013)(2014)(2015) according to the Forest Survey Report, 2017.…”

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Assessing land use/land cover change detection of north-eastern watersheds of Kashmir valley using GIS and remote sensing techniques

Gull

Shah

Dar

2022

Water Practice and Technology

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Land use changes in the Kashmir Himalayas must be mapped and monitored for long-term development and efficient planning. This work uses geospatial technologies like Remote Sensing and Geographic Information System to track changes in Land cover trends in four main watersheds in the Kashmir Valley's north-eastern Himalayas from 2003 to 2013. Land cover maps were created using images from the Landsat-5 Thematic Mapper. The watershed's Land use/Land cover maps were created using supervised classification utilizing the Maximum Likelihood Classifier (MLC). Over the previous decade, the land use/land cover in the study watersheds has undergone a series of intricate changes as a result of deforestation, climate change, and agroforestry growth. A total of eleven major LULC classifications were discovered, indicating that forests are the most common land use in all four watersheds. Forest cover, river beds, water bodies, non-perennial snow, and glaciers have all decreased significantly, whereas Scrubland, horticulture, rock mass, built-up, barren land, and agriculture have all increased significantly, except for Sindh watershed, where Scrubland class has decreased by 5.97% from 2003 to 2013. The study's methodology and conclusions point to crucial policy implications for long-term LULC management in the Kashmir Himalayas' Madhumati, Arin, Sindh, and Lidder watersheds.

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Land Use/Land Cover Changes over a District in Northern India using Remote Sensing and GIS and their Impact on Society and Environment

Cited by 19 publications

References 26 publications

Analysing land use/land cover changes and its dynamics using remote sensing and GIS in Gubalafito district, Northeastern Ethiopia

Analysing land use/land cover changes and its dynamics using remote sensing and GIS in Gubalafito district, Northeastern Ethiopia

Spatiotemporal differences of land use pattern between mountainous areas and basin areas at township scale: A case study of Yuxi City

Assessing land use/land cover change detection of north-eastern watersheds of Kashmir valley using GIS and remote sensing techniques

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