Land Use and Land Cover Change Analysis of Hussainiwala Wetland Ecosystem Using Remote Sensing and GIS

摘要

Land use/land cover dynamics was studied for Hussainiwala wetland using lRS-1 C/1 D LISS-III satellite data for the year 2002 and Cartosat-1 PAN + LISS-IV Mx merged data for the year 2010. The change analysis indicates increase in agricultural land from 6154.09 ha to 6306.87 ha indicating encroachment on the wetland ecosystem. The increased spatial resolution facilitates to identify for the agriculture plantation in year 2010, which comprising of an area of about 2.04 ha. For 2002, area under built up was about 98.44 ha, which increased to 167.16 ha in 2010. Considerable decrease in swampy area from 398.06 ha in 2002 to 64.37 ha in 2010 with scrub/aquatic vegetation has been observed. Significant decrease in vegetation area has been observed throughtime.