Monitoring Land Use/Cover Change Using Digital Classification Techniques: A Case Study of Sadhera Mines, Satna, Madhya Pradesh, India

Abstract

Land use land cover is an important part to understand present as well as past status of the earth’s surface. Land use and land cover are two different terminologies. Land use and land cover is dynamic in nature and provides a comprehensive perceptive of human activities with the environment. As land is becoming a scarce resource due to immense agricultural and demographic pressure, therefore the information on land use land cover and possibilities for their optimal use is essential for the selection, planning and implementation of land use schemes to meet the increasing demands for basic human needs and welfare. The study area is in the limelight due to continuous mining leading to large scale reduction in dense forest. The main objective of this study is to monitor change in landuse and land cover in sadhera and its surrounding mines of Katni district by using of remote sensing and geographic information system technique. The land use land cover change detection has been performed based on the analysis of the digital data of landsat TM (30 Meter) and landsat 8 (OLI)+ Pan (15 Meter)  pertaining to 2009-10 and 2015-16. It has been observed that there has been a significant change in the land use pattern with an increase of 287.46 % in the mining area whereas the area under dense forest has decrease drastically by - 60.21 %. Hence, the information obtained from landuse landcover change detection map help to provide optimal solutions for the selection, planning, implementation and monitoring of mining areas.