Digital Classification of Land Use/ Land Cover by Using Remote Sensing Techniques

Abstract

The landuse/landcover pattern of a region is an outcome of natural and socio-economic factors and their utilization by man in time and space.The terms "land use" and "land cover" are often used simultaneously to describe maps that provide information about the types of features found on the earth's surface is called as land cover and the human activity that is associate with them.The social and economic development of our country is interlaced with our natural resources, and the manner in which they are managed and exploited.The finite land, minerals, water are currently under tremendous pressure in the context of highly competing, and often conflicting demands of an increasing population.So there is an urgent need to improve the productivity and the environment to meet the basic requirements of our growing population and to improve the quality of life.The input data used in this work is satellite Image Resource Sat 2 with LISS 4 Sensor of 5m resolution, and SOI toposheet.The methodology adopted for this thesis is total enumerated through digital analysis which was carried out with the help of Erdas Imagine and GIS software.