Volume : 4, Issue : 1, January - 2015

Landuse/Landcover Mapping of Jangam Hatti Surrounding area ,Maharashtra, India Using Unsupervised Classification Technique

E. Srinivas, G. Sakram

Abstract :

<p>Land use and land cover has become a central component in current strategies for managing natural resources and< /> monitoring environmental changes. To maintain the present natural resources and to understand the causes and< /> consequences of over exploitation of soil and water resources the land use, a land cover mapping was done in the study area i.e. Jangam Hatti< /> ,Kolhapur District. In this study, satellite image for January 2013 were used for LULC (Land Use/ Land Cover) Un Supervised classification. For the< /> classification purposes, seven LULC classes were decided. The most extensive land cover category of the Study area is Forest land i.e. 38.20%. The< /> second most extensive land cover category is Plantation, 20.90%.</p>