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International Journal of Science, Engineering and Technology Research (IJSETR)

Volume 4, Issue 4, April 2015

Land Use And Land Cover ChangeDetectionIn Thirumanimuttar


Sub Basin,Cauvery River,Tamilnadu
N. Vijayakumar1&2, B.Gurugnanam1, K.Arulbalaji1
1. Centre for Applied Geology, Gandhigram Rural Institute – Deemed University,
Gandhigram,Dindigul-624 302.
2.Department of Geology,Government Arts College(Autonomous)-Salem-636 007.

Corresponding author: 1. N.Vijayakumar

 Mississauga using Landsat TM images.H.S. Sudhira et al,


studiedabout Urban sprawl metrics, Land cover dynamics
Abstract—Identification of Land Use and Land Cover and modelling using GIS for Udupi Mangalore. M.
(LULC) changes is an important for many planning and Turkerand O.Asik has studied Land Use Change
managementactivities.Remote sensing and GIS technology Detection At The Rural- Urban Fringe Using
can be used to assess the Land use Land cover changes. By Multi-Sensor Data In Ankara,Turkey.K. C. Setoet al,
using NRSC and supervised classification methods in have monitored the land-use change in the Pearl River
ERDAS IMAGINE software the Land use/Land cover map Delta using Landsat TM. Tamilenthi, J.et al have studied
of the studywas prepared.Considerable LU/LC pattern the dynamics of urban sprawl, changing direction and
can be seen in the study area because of the rapid mapping using a case study of Salem city, Tamilnadu,
Urbanization and development The socioeconomic India. Bassam Saleh and Samih A Rawashdeh studied
development affects the water resources, mineral wealth about Study of urban expansion in Jordanian cities
and ecosystems which are available in the study area.The usingGIS and RS. Information onurban growth, land use
results show that significant land use changes occurred in and land cover change study is very useful to local
the Thirumanimuttar area from 1992 to2010, which may be government and urban planners for thebetterment of
related to economicdevelopment and urban expansion future plans of sustainable development of any
between 1992 and 2010. The result reveals that the area.Heavy urbanisation is witnessing the decrease in,
maximum changes were noticed in increase in vegetation land, agriculture land,forests land, mineral
Built-up-Land and in semi evergreen forest in the study wealthand water bodies. The recent developments of
area. Other changes also can be seen in the spatial
Remote Sensing and Geographical Information System
Technology helps us to measure the land use land cover
distribution.
changes accurately . The present study has been
Keywords: Land use / Land cover, Urbanization,
conducted inthe Thirumanimuttar river Sub Basin of
Remote sensing, Landsat data, Thirumanimuttar
Cavery River, which is spread over in Salem and
Namakkal District of Tamil Nadu, South India. The
objectives are to create land use / land cover map based
on NRSC classification and interpretation of those
1.INTRODUCTION
changes. To achieve the objective we used 1992 and
Land-use and land-cover change, as one of the main 2010satellite data and assessed the changes using remote
driving forces of global environmental change, is central sensing and GIS Technology.
to the sustainable development debate. Land use and
land-cover changes have impacts on a wide range of 2. MATERIALS AND METHODS
environmental and landscape attributes including the
quality of water, land and air resources, ecosystem 2.1. Data Used
processes and function. Information on land use/land 1.Survey of India Toposheet, 1: 50,000 scale, (1972-74)
cover change is essential for the selection, planning and toverify the LULC changes.
implementation of landmanagement schemes to meet the 2. Landsat imagery – (1992 and 2010).
increasing demands forbasic human needs and welfare 3. Image processing software-ERDAS
(Reddy and Gebreselassie,2011). Remotely sensed 4. GIS software-ARC GIS
change detection based on multitemporal, multispectral The methodology to assess the Land use / Land cover
and multisensor imageryprovides this information (Singh, changes is given below (Figure 1):
1989; Othman et al.,2013). LULC studies include, image
enhancement, LULC classification and change detection.
Qualitative and quantitative terrestrial land-cover changes
have been identified using Satellite imagery .Landsat
satellite data are most widely used for studying the Land
use and Landcover changes. J. Li and H.M. Zhao have
studied the Urban LandUse and Land Cover Changes in

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Figure-1.Methodology

2.2. Study Area


The study area is located in between North Latitude
10° 58' and11° 50' and East Longitude 77° 53' and78° 23'
total area coveredby 2432km2 (Figure.2). The average
elevation is 278m (912ft). The study area is bounded by
many wavy hills and undulated terrain characterised with
archean rocks.
Figure 3. LU/LC Map for the year 1992

Figure 4. LU/LC Map for the year 2010

Landsat TM 1992 and 2010 satellite data have been


downloadedusing the www.landcover.org website. The Land
Use/ Land Cover map was prepared by processing the
Figure 2. The Study Area imageries in ERDAS image processing software(Figure 3,
The Thirumanimuttar is the main river and it is a tributary of Figure 4). These maps were classified by using NRSC and
Cauvery river. The sub basin is shared by Salem and supervised classification methods. There are seven classes of
Namakkal Districts . the classification and these seven classes are Build-up land,

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Shrub land, Deciduous Forest, Semi evergreen Forest, Agri./Fallow land, and Plantation changes are distributed
Agri./Fallow land, Water bodies and Plantation. The around the study area.
classified fields clearly showthe current scenario of the 4. CONCLUSION
region. The above maps are clearly showing the land use/land TheLU/LC change detection study of this area shows
cover changes for the year 1992 and 2010. The comparative thatShrub land(2%), Deciduous Forest (3%),Agri./Fallow
changes are given below (Table 1).In this study, the Tasseled land(2%), Water bodies(1%) and Plantation (4%)are
Cap Transformation was carried out for TOA corrected relatively decreased. This is due to less amount ofrainfall
Landsat satellite imagery by applying Huang et al. (2002) where us Built-up-Land (11%) and Semi Evergreen forest
(3%) are relatively increased. The abnormal growth of Salem
Year 1992 Year 2010 City and other important towns are the main causes of
increasing built-up-land.
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