Land Use and Land Cover Change Monitoring of Agaratala Municipal Corporation Area Using Geospatial Technology

Land use and land cover change is a critical compoenent for bio-physical assessment. It has an encompassing impact on all environmental aspects. So many scholars have performed land use change analysis at myraid scales on different parts of the globe. The present study also focuses the change analysis of different land use and land cover types of Agartala Municipal Corporation, Tripura, India. For the analysis geospational methods are used. Remote sensing data products are classified to figure out the different land use types namely waterbody, vegetation, cultivable land, builtup and vacant land. Accuracy assessment is performed which yeild more 80 per cent reflecting performace of the classification algarithms. The study shows that in the study area build up area is rapidly increasing at the cost of other land use types. This type of study is very important for urban planning as hapazard growth of cities may lead to serious negative externalities for the people living in the urban areas. The study is also important from the prespective of achiving sustainable Development Goal, 2030 where healthy urban living is emphasised.