TWO DECADEAL LAND USE LAND COVER OF KODAGU DISTRICT OF WESTERN GHATS, SOUTH INDIAS.S. Ravishankar and B.C. NagarajaAbstract The present study is focused on assessing two decadeal land use land cover using Remote Sensing and Geographical Information System for the year 1999 and 2019. Simultaneously, the Landsat 5 imagerires for February 1999 and Landsat 8 for February 2019 were used , Pre-processing of the acquired geocoded subscene of selected study area for 1999 and 2019 was performed using ERDAS Imagine. The study revealed that Evergreen forests have decreased by 9.4%, on the other hand, the area of Semi-evergreen forest, Moist Deciduous Forest, Dry Deciduous forest, Scrubforest and Forest Plantation has increased by 1.21%, 1.17%, 1.03%, 0.10% and 0.56% respectively. The water bodies have decreased by 0.8% from 1.2% to 0.4%. The change of barren land is negligible from 0.16% to 0.17%. The area of Grasslands, Agricultural plantations, Built-up and mining areas have increased from 2.73%, 28.26%, 0.37% and 0.03% to 3.76%, 36.38%, 1.79% and 0.06% respectively. The information maps generated out of this study will help will help the fron-tline forest officials to trace back the degraded areas and undertake site specific conservation plan. |