scholarly journals Land use Change In Khageri Watershed, Chitwan

2014 ◽  
pp. 51-56 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keshav Raj Dhakal
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Land Use Pattern ◽  
Remarkable Change ◽  
Grazing Land ◽  
Barren Land ◽  
Sandy Area ◽  
The Third ◽  
Development Region ◽  
And Migration

This paper is an attempt to analyze land use pattern and its changes between 1978/79 and 1999 in Khageri watershed located in Central Development Region, Nepal. This watershed has mainly been covered with forest followed by agricultural land. The proportion of other land use categories like grazing land, sandy area, and barren land and water bodies is limited. The pattern of land use has been changing in this area. Resettlement program after eradication of malaria and migration of population from other parts of the country are the main causes of this change. The resettlement in the watershed of population from Padampur VDC further accelerated the change. The most remarkable change was from forest to agricultural land. The sandy area has also been increased due to lateral cutting and floods of the Khageri River and deforestation.DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/ttp.v8i0.11512 The Third Pole: Journal of Geography Vol.8-10, pp. 51-56: 2010

scholarly journals Prospects and retrospects of land use system through agroforestry practices in Meherpur district, Bangladesh

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
MS Hosain ◽  
MW Islam
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Structure Questionnaire ◽  
Land Use Pattern ◽  
Remarkable Change ◽  
Land Use System ◽  
Use Pattern ◽  
Agro Forestry ◽  
To Receive ◽  
Agroforestry Practices

The study aims to explore the prospects and retrospects of land use system through agroforestry practices in Meherpur district, Bangladesh. It particularly focuses on some aspects of land uses of the study area like land use pattern, land ownership, choices of species for agroforestry, farmers’ perceptions towards agroforestry, status and prospects of agroforestry practices. This study was carried out by using mixed method followed by a semi-structure questionnaire. A total of 100 respondents were selected by using snowball purposive sampling method. The study revealed that agriculture was the major occupation (50%) of the selected respondents. Of the total land used by selected respondents, 21% land were used for agroforestry, 69% for agriculture and remaining 10% for homestead purposes. Most of the farmers (60%) were small landholders (1 to 5 acres) and 18% had lesser than 1 acre land. Among them 76% had their own land followed by 8% leased land and 16% both own and leased land. They preferred agroforestry in their homestead (92%), agricultural land (65%), water body (31%) and fallow land (18%). The farmers were practicing different types of agroforestry such as cropland, homestead and aquaculture with boundary plantation by mixing trees, agricultural crops and vegetables in their farmlands to receive diversified outcomes. A remarkable change in land use pattern was found after adopting agroforestry practices in this study area. Maximum respondents practiced agro-forestry in their homestead and croplands. Most of the land (67%) was used for agriculture cultivation while a very small amount of land was used as agroforestry in the study area.Int. J. Agril. Res. Innov. & Tech. 7 (2): 1-6, December, 2017

scholarly journals GIS and RS based analysis of LULCC in Indian Himalayan

2021 ◽  
Vol 889 (1) ◽  
pp. 012001
Author(s):  
Sapna Azad ◽  
Kanwarpreet Singh
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Major Change ◽  
Landsat Images ◽  
Land Use Pattern ◽  
Barren Land ◽  
Rs And Gis ◽  
Gis And Rs ◽  
Essential Resource ◽  
Year 2000

Abstract Land use is the main essential resource of the total ecological system.. Analysing LULCC is important for a vast range of applications such as landslide, land planning etc. In this study, LULCC have been considered for a period of 20 years (2000-2021) using RS and GIS based analysis of Shimla, Himachal Pradesh, India. Supervised classification technique is used to analyse LANDSAT images from the year 2000 to 2021. The output is identified and changes in land use pattern was obtained for each successive imagery and final changes were obtain by comparing 2000 and 2021 usgs data. The result obtained indicate a major change in the growth. Thickly vegetated land reduced from 95.52% to 20.22% in the year 2021 whereas the Moderately Vegetated land reduced from 60.25% to 10.50%. In the year 2021, The Urban Land increased from 75.65% to 180.50% while the agricultural land is also increased from 70.63% to 190.25%. Barren Land also gets increased from 65.25% to 150.23%.

scholarly journals A study of spatial and temporal distribution of land utilization pattern in Mopka village using RS & GIS

2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Soni Prasoon ◽  
Singh Pushpraj
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Land Cover ◽  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Anthropogenic Activities ◽  
Natural Habitat ◽  
Sustainable Land Use ◽  
Land Use Land Cover ◽  
Land Utilization ◽  
Land Use Pattern ◽  
Barren Land

Remote Sensing and GIS is a very good modality for retrospection and the strategy for better exploitation of sustainable land use system. The present study was conducted in the Bilaspur district for analyzing the spatial distribution of Land Use Change. During last decades the increasing population of Bilaspur city, affect the land use pattern of Mopka Village. The anthropogenic activities were affecting the agricultural land along with barren land. For the development of civic amenities the land of the above village was used. The main objective of the present study is to analyses the land use/land cover distribution in Mopka village, Bilaspur district in between last 12 years and to identify the main forces behind the changes. The objectives of present studies are, to create a land use land cover maps of Mopka village using satellite imagery. To analysis the temporal changes of village area in between the year 2000 and 2012, the primary, secondary and satellite data were used. The results of the present study show that the decadeial changes due to population growth and increasing demand of infrastructure were destroying the natural resources, natural habitat and soil structure of area.Int. J. Agril. Res. Innov. & Tech. 5 (1): 1-9, June, 2015

Analiza modului de utilizare a terenurilor în Regiunea de Dezvoltare Nord a Republicii Moldova

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Iurie Bejan ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Arable Land ◽  
Current Mode ◽  
Climatic Conditions ◽  
Development Region ◽  
Agro Forestry

The land use has undergone some changes in the last 30 years, by reducing the areas with arable land, converting multi-annual plantations into other categories of land, etc. According to the current mode of land use, the Northern Development Region has a pronounced agricultural profile - 80.3% of the total area represents agricultural land. The spatial differentiations regarding the morphological and agro-climatic conditions allowed the identification within the region of areas with agro-forestry and agro-pastoral specializations.

scholarly journals Impact of Land Use Change on Climate: A Study of Tripura

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Vipin Solanki ◽  
Aparna Joshi
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Rapid Change ◽  
The State ◽  
Primate Species ◽  
Land Use Pattern ◽  
Secondary Sources ◽  
North East India ◽  
North East ◽  
Government Websites

Land use is the human utilization for money, private, recreational, conservational and administrative purposes. The idea of land use is firmly interwoven with human network advancement. Examples of human turn of events and land use have molded the earth legitimately and internationally since ancient occasions. Current improvement designs, along with highlights of the common habitat and the outcomes of past advancement exercises, decide future advancement openings, and furthermore the requirement for rebuilding or upgrade of natural assets. North-east India is the abode of highly endemic flora and fauna preserving the pristine environment with little human interference until recent times. However, for past two decades a drastic change in the land use pattern in the region has been observed which may threaten the fragile ecological balance of the region. Tripura, known as one of the seven sisters, is a bamboo resource and second largest rubber producer in India. Tripura has the highest number of primate species found in any Indian state. However, as compared to its other sisters, the state is economically backward. The land use of the state is undergoing rapid change which is facilitated to a great extent by rapidly increasing population. The present paper deals with the changing land use of Tripura especially in the last two and a half decades. The objective of the study is to analyse the changing land use of the state in general and changes in agricultural and non-agricultural land use in particular based upon the data collected from secondary sources like Statistical Abstract of Tripura, Population Tables of Census 1991, 2001 and 2011 along with the information collected from various government websites.

scholarly journals Spatio-Temporal Variation Analysis of Landscape Pattern Response to Land Use Change from 1985 to 2015 in Xuzhou City, China

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (11) ◽  
pp. 4287 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yantao Xi ◽  
Nguyen Thinh ◽  
Cheng Li
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Landscape Pattern ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Vegetation Index ◽  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Land Use Changes ◽  
Landscape Patterns ◽  
Rapid Urbanization ◽  
Barren Land

Rapid urbanization has dramatically spurred economic development since the 1980s, especially in China, but has had negative impacts on natural resources since it is an irreversible process. Thus, timely monitoring and quantitative analysis of the changes in land use over time and identification of landscape pattern variation related to growth modes in different periods are essential. This study aimed to inspect spatiotemporal characteristics of landscape pattern responses to land use changes in Xuzhou, China durfing the period of 1985–2015. In this context, we propose a new spectral index, called the Normalized Difference Enhanced Urban Index (NDEUI), which combines Nighttime light from the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program/Operational Linescan System with annual maximum Enhanced Vegetation Index to reduce the detection confusion between urban areas and barren land. The NDEUI-assisted random forests algorithm was implemented to obtain the land use/land cover maps of Xuzhou in 1985, 1995, 2005, and 2015, respectively. Four different periods (1985–1995, 1995–2005, 2005–2015, and 1985–2015) were chosen for the change analysis of land use and landscape patterns. The results indicate that the urban area has increased by about 30.65%, 10.54%, 68.77%, and 143.75% during the four periods at the main expense of agricultural land, respectively. The spatial trend maps revealed that continuous transition from other land use types into urban land has occurred in a dual-core development mode throughout the urbanization process. We quantified the patch complexity, aggregation, connectivity, and diversity of the landscape, employing a number of landscape metrics to represent the changes in landscape patterns at both the class and landscape levels. The results show that with respect to the four aspects of landscape patterns, there were considerable differences among the four years, mainly owing to the increasing dominance of urbanized land. Spatiotemporal variation in landscape patterns was examined based on 900 × 900 m sub-grids. Combined with the land use changes and spatiotemporal variations in landscape patterns, urban growth mainly occurred in a leapfrog mode along both sides of the roads during the period of 1985 to 1995, and then shifted into edge-expansion mode during the period of 1995 to 2005, and the edge-expansion and leapfrog modes coexisted in the period from 2005 to 2015. The high value spatiotemporal information generated using remote sensing and geographic information system in this study could assist urban planners and policymakers to better understand urban dynamics and evaluate their spatiotemporal and environmental impacts at the local level to enable sustainable urban planning in the future.

scholarly journals Agricultural Land Conversion in the Sub-Urban Area: A Case Study of Rajshahi Metropolitan City

2014 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
pp. 21-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Md Abdul Halim ◽  
Md Mizanoor Rahman ◽  
Md Zahidul Hassan
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Land Conversion ◽  
Land Use Pattern ◽  
Arc Gis ◽  
Gis Software

Bangladesh is a land scarce country where per capita cultivated land is only 12.5 decimals. It is claimed that every year about one percent of farm land in the country is being converted to non-agricultural uses. The study is based mainly on field survey covering 2 villages (Narikel Baria and Baze Silinda) from 10 sub-urban villages around Rajshahi City Corporation under Paba Upazila of Rajshahi district. The study area was selected purposively and the respondents of this research work were selected randomly. The major focus was on to mention the general land use pattern of the area, estimates the agricultural land conversion besides determining the causes and consequences affecting such conversion. Both Narikel Baria and Baze Silinda villages were selected as study area because of its relatively higher growth in infrastructure. In order to fulfill the goal of this study, primary and secondary data were collected from various sources and to analyze and process of collected data the SPSS, Excel and Arc GIS software were used. Different types of descriptive statistics were applied for representing the analyzed data. It is observed that the land conversion form agriculture to non-agriculture allied in recent time is more than the previous time due to gradually increasing land demand in housing and relevant services which invites adverse impact on agricultural land as well as its dependent population. So, it is necessary to take integrated land-use planning to offer better options for the fulfillment of land demand both of housing and agricultural sectors. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3329/jles.v8i0.20136 J. Life Earth Sci., Vol. 8: 21-30, 2013

scholarly journals Comparatives Study of Soil Organic Carbon (SOC) under Forest, Cultivated and Barren Land: A Case of Chovar Village, Kathmandu

2014 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 103-108 ◽  
Author(s):  
S Bhandari ◽  
S Bam
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Organic Carbon ◽  
Soil Organic Carbon ◽  
Forest Soil ◽  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Soil Depth ◽  
Barren Land ◽  
C Stocks ◽  
Soc Stock ◽  
Land Use And Management

The study was carried out in Chovar village of Kritipur Municipality, Kathmandu to compare the soil organic carbon (SOC) of three main land use types namely forest, agricultural and barren land and to show how land use and management are among the most important determinants of SOC stock. Stratified random sampling method was used for collecting soil samples. Walkley and Black method was applied for measuring SOC. Land use and soil depth both affected SOC stock significantly. Forest soil had higher SOC stock (98 t ha-1) as compared to agricultural land with 36.6 t ha-1 and barren land with 83.6 t ha-1. Similarly, the SOC in terms of CO22-1, 79.27 to 22.02 CO2-e ha-1 and 121.11 to 80.74 CO2-1 for 0- 20 cm to 40-60 cm soil depth, respectively. Bulk density (BD) was found less in forest soil compared to other lands at all depths, which showed negative correlation with SOC. The study showed a dire need to increase current soil C stocks which can be achieved through improvements in land use and management practices, particularly through conservation and restoration of degraded forests and soils.   DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/njst.v14i2.10422   Nepal Journal of Science and Technology Vol. 14, No. 2 (2013) 103-108

scholarly journals Land Use/Land Cover Change Detection using Geoinformatics in Gurugram District, Haryana, India

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 3753-3755
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Change Detection ◽  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Water Bodies ◽  
Time Range ◽  
Barren Land ◽  
Irs P6 ◽  
Significant Extension ◽  
Liss Iii ◽  
Irs P6 Liss Iv

The district Gurugram in the state Haryana has seen significant extension & development during the last few years. In this paper, the change in land-use/cover has been estimated with time range of 2007 - 2017 and the change detection was quantified. The land-use/cover data generated through satellite imagery has been classified into five major classes i.e., (i) Built-up land (ii) Water Bodies (iii) Barren Land (iv) Agricultural Land (v) Vegetation. The investigation was helped out through Geoinformatics approach by using IRS-P6- LISS-III sensor of 2007 and IRS-P6-LISS-IV sensor of 2017. Observing of land-use/spread mirrored that changes were more noteworthy in degree over the time range of 10 years in the land under various classes. The most sensational changes are the increase in built-up land and barren land. Apart from this decrease in agricultural, water bodies and vegetation cover area also. Results demonstrates an expansive change in the territory of various land use classifications amid the period from 2007 to 2017.The agriculture land covering an area of about 55.27% in 2007 reduced to 43.42% in 2017. The built up area increased from 15.97 % in 2007 to 30.23 in 2017. The barren land area increased from 6.45 % in 2007 to 16.97 in 2017 The Water bodies decreased from 4.65 % in 2007 to 1.05 % in 2017. The vegetation area has also decreased from 17.66 % in 2007 to 8.33 % in 2017. Urban extension and various anthropogenic exercises have brought genuine misfortunes of agricultural land, vegetation and water bodies.

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