Assessment of land use/land cover change detection of Mettupalayam Taluk, Coimbatore district, Tamil Nadu, India, using RS and GIS

Understanding changes in land use cover is essential managing and monitoring natural resources development, particularly where urbanization expanding. In present study, describes use/land (LU/LC) mapping change detection analysis of Mettupalayam taluk Coimbatore district Tamil Nadu. Estimation ArcGIS for LU/LC classification from LANSAT images, the best method classifier different features were used to classify satellite images are s given period. The results indicated that have occurred slight decrease forests, vegetation mountain a corresponding tremendous increase settlement. comparison 2000 2019 derived topo-sheet imagery interpretation indicates settlement area shows variations. Settlement an human habitation, which has buildings network transport other civic amenities, due increasing population converted into habitation. (Urbanization) settlement/ built-up areas increased by 7.29% while it 16.43 %. It found urban growth cum rapid economic progress.