Accuracy Assessment and Analysis of Land Use Land Cover Change Using Geoinformatics Technique in Raniganj Coalfield Area, India

Amit Sarkar
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Amit Sarkar: Research Scholar, Department of Geography, University of Calcutta, India

International Journal of Environmental Sciences & Natural Resources, 2018, vol. 11, issue 1, 25-34

Abstract: Raniganj coalfield area has a complex land use land cover degradation scenario due to opencast mining and associated development activities since 1960 [1-20]. Miscellaneous mining aids like dumper, dozer and dragline caused enormous amount of land degradation. Indeed the degraded land covers are changed into other land uses in due course of time. That’s why it is urgent necessary to understand and compute the land use conversion and transformation in Raniganj coalfield area and its surroundings. Land use change is occurred due to open cast coal mining and associated development activity is measured by assessing the change detection analysis in ERDAS Imagine environment using the algorithm of Zhang (1992) in 1973 to 2015. On average 30% forest is converted into other land use within only 10 years in Sonepur, Satgram, Sripur and Khottadih area. Contrary fallow land, agriculture, urban and quarry land retained and gained its original own land use. The changing process will tell us the inter class transformation rate and dominant land cover in Raniganj mining area in near future.

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Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.19080/IJESNR.2018.11.555805

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