Monitoring land use changes associated with urbanization in the upper Bhima basin, Maharashtra, India

Author

Samal, Dipak R. ; Gedam, Shirishkumar S.

Author_Institution

Centre of Studies in Resources Eng. (CSRE), IIT Bombay, Mumbai, India

fYear

2013

fDate

21-26 July 2013

Firstpage

2673

Lastpage

2676

Abstract

Urbanization is the most dramatic form of irreversible land transformation which occurs due to various anthropogenic activities. Multi-temporal Landsat images acquired from different sensors like MSS, TM and ETM+ between 1972-2009 as well as digital elevation dataset is used to study the influence of urbanization on its surrounding land use/cover pattern in the upper Bhima basin. An object based standard nearest neighbor (NN) classification technique is employed for precise classification of various land use classes in the basin. The study revealed that rapid built up area expansion driven by population growth, demand for water from city region leads to construction of new dams in high rainfall region and mass conversion of waste land to agricultural land are the major changes being noticed in the basin due to urbanization.

Keywords

digital elevation models; geophysical image processing; geophysical techniques; image classification; image segmentation; land cover; land use; object-oriented methods; remote sensing; AD 1972 to 2009; India; Maharashtra; agricultural land; anthropogenic activities; digital elevation dataset; irreversible land transformation; land cover pattern; land use change monitoring; land use pattern; multitemporal Landsat images; object based standard nearest neighbor classification technique; rainfall region; upper Bhima basin; waste land; Accuracy; Cities and towns; Earth; Remote sensing; Rivers; Satellites; Sociology; Bhima basin; GIS; Object based image analysis; Urbanization;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2013 IEEE International

Conference_Location

Melbourne, VIC

ISSN

2153-6996

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-1114-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.2013.6723373

Filename

6723373