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Land Use/Land Cover Change and Environmental Impact Analysis of Ramgarh-Naudiha Region in Uttar Pradesh, India through Geospatial Technology

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Title Land Use/Land Cover Change and Environmental Impact Analysis of Ramgarh-Naudiha Region in Uttar Pradesh, India through Geospatial Technology
 
Creator Karmakar, Debiprasad
Singh, Vartika
Singh, Raghvendra
Sharma, Lalit Kumar
Ghosh, Swapankumar
 
Subject Structural Clay Products
 
Description Rapidly changing LULC scenario with growing population is of great concern in the modern world. The present study was undertaken to evaluate the changes in LULC pattern in Ramgarh-Naudiha region of Sonbhadra district, UP, over 20 years during 1998-2018 using datasets from the Landsat Thematic Mapper (TM) 5 and Landsat 8 (OLI/TIRS) satellites. LULC map for the chosen period has been generated by unsupervised classification with maximum likelihood algorithm. Results indicate that the study area is vulnerable to such LULC changes due to its sensitive geographic location. It is found that the major changes did happen in agriculture, forest, wasteland and water bodies. Agriculture and Forest areas have decreased by similar to 2 and 6.56% respectively in the study period. The wastelands had increased fast from 5.08% in 1998 to 18.87% in 2018 at the cost of the forest cover and agricultural land respectively. In 1998, water bodies were 7.49%, whereas, it has decreased to 2.04% in 2018. On the contrary, urban fringe area has grown from 0.33% in 1998 to 0.49% in 2018 especially due to population growth. The present study concludes that this LULC analysis will increase awareness and help in taking necessary action in appropriate land use planning and management.
 
Publisher National Institute of Science Communication
 
Date 2023-04
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
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Identifier http://cgcri.csircentral.net/5581/1/70789-465634632-1-PB.pdf
Karmakar, Debiprasad and Singh, Vartika and Singh, Raghvendra and Sharma, Lalit Kumar and Ghosh, Swapankumar (2023) Land Use/Land Cover Change and Environmental Impact Analysis of Ramgarh-Naudiha Region in Uttar Pradesh, India through Geospatial Technology. Journal of Scientific & Industrial Research, 82 (4). pp. 475-484. ISSN 0022-4456
 
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