Land use/ Land cover Change Detection in Auranga River Basin, Jharkhand

Abstract

Land use is a man-made dynamic process in which human uses land resource to fulfil their various
economic, social and cultural needs and at the same time it also provides a base for development. The
proper management needed for sustainable development of land can improve the eco-system and its
productivity in a particular geographical region. The present study focuses on spatio-temporal changes in
land use and land cover pattern in Auranga river basin of Jharkhand using geospatial approach. Supervised
classification technique was applied in this study to detect land use/ land cover changes. The main
objective of the study is to analyse temporal change of land use/ land cover pattern during 1996, 2007 and
2018 using various dataset as well as other ancillary data. The result reveales both increase and decrease of
the different land use/ land cover classes from 1996 to 2018