Remote Sensing of City Extension and Vegetal Cover Changes along Lagos-Ibadan Access Strip in Nigeria

The paper employed Remote sensing data in a multi-decadal assessment of vegetal to urban land cover transition along Lagos-Ibadan expressway. forty-year commenced 1980 and ended 2020. Landsat imageries acquired for the respective periods were subjected supervised classification. Results reveal massive conversion vegetated areas into built-up areas. became pronounced from second decade with 30,226 cumulative 48,455 Hectares vegetation transforming area. During third (2000 2010), additional 44,780 93,235 green area was converted largest recorded last (2010 2020) during which covering 50,827 living or industrial giving 141,065. In year 2020 Pearson moment correlation showed high negative coefficient value -0.86. bare surfaces.