Volume : 4, Issue : 4, April - 2015

Landuse/ Landcover Mapping of Kamalapuram Surrounding area ,Andhrapradesh, India, Using Unsupervised Classification Technique

B. Venkatesh

Abstract :

<p>&nbsp;Land use and land cover has become a central component in current strategies for managing natural resources and&nbsp;</p> <div>monitoring environmental changes. To maintain the present natural resources and to understand the causes and&nbsp;</div> <div>consequences of over exploitation of soil and water resources the land use, a land cover mapping was done in the study&nbsp;</div> <div>area i.e. Kamalapuram ,Kurnool District. In this study, satellite image for March 2013 were used for LULC (Land Use/ Land Cover) Un Supervised&nbsp;</div> <div>classification. For the classification purposes, seven LULC classes were decided. The most extensive land cover category of the Study area is land&nbsp;</div> <div>with/without scrub i.e. 32.34%. The second most extensive land cover category is Forest, 26.98%.&nbsp;</div>