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Transformation in Vegetation and Urban Sprawl in Gotan and Surrounding: A Sustainable Development Approach for Land Use Change and Socioeconomic Issues

Transformation in Vegetation and Urban Sprawl in Gotan and Surrounding: A Sustainable Development Approach for Land Use Change and Socioeconomic Issues
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Author(s): Rizwan Ahmad (Interdisciplinary Department of Remote Sensing & GIS Applications, Aligarh Muslim University (UN GGIM Academic Network), India)and Ramaraju Sudarshana (United Nations Compensation Commissions, India)
Copyright: 2021
Pages: 14
Source title: Examining International Land Use Policies, Changes, and Conflicts
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): G. N. Tanjina Hasnat (University of Chittagong, Bangladesh)and Mohammed Kamal Hossain (University of Chittagong, Bangladesh)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-4372-6.ch006

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Abstract

The main driving forces associated with transformation of vegetation cover and urban sprawl, are undoubtedly climate change and human intervention. Finding the truth behind transformation of Gotan, Rajasthan Landsat TM/ETM+ data of the years 1987,1990, 1995, 2000, 2003, 2010, 2015, and 2018 were used. These time series data comprising total of nine scenes were selected to measure the urban and green cover transformation in the past four decades. Landsat TM/ETM+ data were used because it is inexpensive, with high monitoring frequency and covers large areas. The Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) of 1987–2018, derived from the remote sensing dataset along with the application of statistical methods and GIS techniques, were used to quantify vegetation cover change. The results show that human-induced factors can explain most variations at sites with significant cover change. It has been a well-known fact that sustainable development presents a system in order to accomplish economic growth, bring about social justice, implement environmental awareness and most certainly the fortification of government sector.

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