Change Detection of Lake Chad Water Surface Area Using Remote Sensing and Satellite Imagery

The Lake Chad located in the west-central Africa Sahel region at edge of Sahara experienced severe drought during 1970s and 1980s overexploitation (unintegrated unsustainable use), which is a result variant land uses water management practices last 50 years. This resulted decline level surrounding rivers. present study analyzed satellite images from Landsat-MSS, Landsat-OLI to investigate change open surface area years 1973, 1987, 2001, 2013, 2017. Supervised classifications were performed for cover analysis. 1973 was covering 16,157.34 km2 approximately, that 64.6% total lake 1960s. As an ultimate extreme witnessed through 1970s-1980s, has decreased 1831.44 km2, i.e. around 11.33%, compared 1973. dilemma suffering believed be catastrophic complication aforementioned crisis, arose as climate change, global warming, unintegrated use challenges still encountering.