Spatio-Temporal Variation in Land Use and Land Cover from 1988 to 2018: A Study of District Khairpur Mir’s, Pakistan

Abstract

One of the major drivers of environmental change at the global and regional levels is defined as land use and land cover (LULC). The process of LULC modification is a result of the complex interactions between people and their surroundings In order to effectively use and manage natural resources, Detecting the changes of land use and land cover of the earth’s surface is extremely important to achieve continual and precise information about study area for planning and development. The aim of this study is to map the land use and land cover of District Khairpur on year 1988, 1998, 2008 and 2018 respectively to monitor the possible changes that may occur particularly in agricultural land and urban or built-up land, and detect the process of urbanization in this city. Maximum likelihood supervised classification were used in all four imageries and five classes were made namely Vegetation, Water Body, Sand, Barren land, and Built-up Area.