Application of Gis and Remote Sensing in Land Use Statistics

Systematic and comprehensive compilation of land use statistics is necessary for planned development of agriculture, forests, grasslands, rural settlements, urban spreads, industries and other land based programmes and activities. The need for optimizing land use in an integrated manner has become particularly relevant in recent years as a consequence of compelling and conflicting demands of growing population, increasing land degradation and thus sharply declining man land ratio. The land use planning is a means of optimum utilization of natural resources, specially, the land which is one of the most important resource, based on its related factors like socio-economic condition, soil type, climate, water availability etc. for production as a whole. Naturally, the effective land use planning of particular region needs information related to various input factors of production.