ASSESSMENT OF LAND USE AND LAND COVER CHANGE (1974-2018) USING GEOSPATIAL TECHNIQUES IN WESTERN HARYANA PLAINS OF NORTHERN INDIAVinod Kumar and K. Nageswara RaoAbstract Changing land use and land cover pattern in the plains of Western Haryana was assessed for the last four decades during 1974 to 2018. The change detection studies are proved to be significant in the planning and management of developmental activities. This study hypothesized that the changing patterns in the Western Haryana Plains of Northern India are related to its human population dynamics. The multispectral temporal data of MSS, TM, and ETM+ sensors of LANDSAT and LISS IV sensor of IRS P6 was used for identifying various categories such as built-up, agriculture, forest, scrub land, barren/rocky, waterlogged area, sandy area, and water bodies. These categories have been delineated by using the supervised image classification technique. It is observed that marginal changes have occurred in all land-use categories except the sandy area which is drastically declined. On the other hand, agricultural land has been increased more with 27% of total land area during the study period. |