Land use, Land Cover, and Waste Land Mapping of Yadgiri Taluka using GIS & Remote Sensing Technique

Land use land cover (LULC) and waste land has became a major component to handle natural resources and managing changes occurring in the environment which is due to expansion of the rural/urban area, critical losses of agriculture land, vegetation land and water bodies. Followed by this the rural sprawl created an environmental issue. For example: Decreased air quality and increase in the temperature etc. Land use and land cover is driven by human actions and also drives changes that limit availability of products and services for human and animals and it can damage/weaken ecological balance also. Land use and land cover is an important component in understanding various interactions of the human activities with the environment and thus it is necessary simulate changes. Therefore, this study was aimed at understanding land use land cover and waste land change in yadgiri Taluka. In this work we took yadagiri taluka to study the expansion of LULC and wasteland change took place in 2000, 2005, 2010, and 2015 respectively to know the changes happened in the year 2015 by comparing with data of 5 years interval. Remote sensing methodology is used in this study which provides major coverage, mapping & classification of land cover features such as vegetation, soil, forest etc. Satellite images of four different year’s i.e., 2000, 2005, 2010, and 2015 are taken into consideration 6.