Land Use and Land Cover Change Detection in Sriperumbudur Taluk, Kanchipuram District

Dr. R. Shyamala, E. Hemavathy

Abstract: The spatial dimensions of land use and land cover needs to be known at all times so that policy-makers and scientists will be amply equipped to take decisions. The most important thing is the changing pattern of land use and land cover reflects changing economic and social conditions. In order to consider these factors this research focusing the change detection in land use and land cover for three decades. In this paper analyzed the three decade land use and land cover status of Sriperumbudur. The land use change detections for the period from 1998 to 2008, 2008 to 2018 over all land use changes from 1998 to 2018 are analyzed under GIS environment. Finally this paper concluded with some remedies for further environmental management.

Keywords: Land use, Land cover, GIS, Satellite imagery, Spatial dimensions, remedies