CHANGING LANDSCAPE PATTERNS AND ITS EFFECT ON RISING LAND SURFACE TEMPERATURE OF LAHORE-PAKISTAN

The study intaimsto evaluate the impact of landscape (Land use land cover) changeson Land surface temperature (LST) by using GIS and Remote sensing (RS) techniques in Lahoreduring 2017–2021.Supervised Maximum Likelihood classification method was used to classify theland cover classes. For retrieval temperature, Landsat 8 (Band 10)product level 2 used. Barren built- up area were identified as most leading LULCclasses respectively at cost vegetation water bodies. barren landclass increased from 55.9% 63.81% ,while Built-up class also increases 13.5% 18.46%during 2017-2021.Whereas , bodies both are exhibiting decline. declinein reported 29.58% 17.6% over time 2017 2021.Overall, 0.3 %decrease is observed In 3◦C decline temperature(LST) value than 2021.Built-up Vegetation classes can contribute a significant role variation ofLST comparison These results will be very helpful understand LULCchanges eventually it assist management authorities, policy maker town plannersas well.