Spatial Analysis of Land Use and Land Cover of Gujranwala District Using Remotely Sensed Data

Farheen Tahir, Ali Iqtadar Mirza, Mariam Sarwar,Shakeel Mahmood
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Farheen Tahir, Ali Iqtadar Mirza, Mariam Sarwar,Shakeel Mahmood: Department of Geography,Government College UniversityLahore, Pakistan

International Journal of Innovations in Science & Technology, 2025, vol. 7, issue 9, 258-265

Abstract: Land use and land cover change a major problem in most metropolitan areas in the world, where a natural land surface is changed by commercial land. Gujranwala is the 5th most populous city of Pakistan. The present population is 2,290,000. This study is an effort to assess the land use changes in Gujranwala District from the years 1990 to 2020. Land use Land cover (LULC) is the spatial change in land use and land cover from 1990 to 2020. The whole research is categorized into four classes (i.e., Vegetation, Uncultivable Land, Built-up Area, and Waterbody). The objectives revolve around the detection and assessment of Land use and Land cover in the district. The land cover is directly proportional to the expansion of the population of the district. The reasons for the changes are the development of residential and commercial buildings. Two types of analysis are being used in the methodology. The temporal analysis is done using Spatial techniques, including Geographic Information System (GIS) and Remote Sensing. Furthermore, the statistical analysis was also performed using the statistical data of the built-up area. The findings depicted that the alterations in land cover were due to an increase in built-up area and population in the city.

Keywords: Geographic Information System; Remote Sensing; Change Detection; Land Use Land Cover (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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