Pratiksha Phukon and Wangshimenla Jamir
Abstract
Land use and land cover change detection and analysis are one of the most important aspects of studying the human environment relation of an area. This study integrated Landsat satellite data with remote sensing and GIS technology. The present study shows the land use and land cover (LULC) pattern of Nazira circle over two decades, 2003 to 2023. The primary objectives of the study are to analyze the land use pattern, produce LULC maps for the two decades, and assess land cover change metrics. For the year 2003 LANDSAT 5 image and 2023 LANDSAT 8 images were used. Also, seven land use land cover classes were identified with supervised image classification and maximum likelihood algorithm. Change matrix analysis has been done based on the data generated from the analysis of the change metrics for 2003-2023. This study also calculates the confusion matrices to determine the accuracy of the maps. The accuracy of the map for 2003 is 93% and for the map of 2023 is 87%.