Temporal monitoring of land use/land cover and their mapping rania block of Sirsa district using geo-techniques Dr. Duhan J. S.*, Kumar Mukesh** *Deputy Director, Department of Higher Education, Panchkula, Haryana **Assistant Professor, Govt. College Siwani, Bhiwani, Haryana Online published on 27 September, 2019. Abstract The pressures on the natural resources have tremendously increased over years by man's greed for commercialization and livelihood of local people. Devoid of regeneration, population and wide scale tree felling depleted the natural re-sources to a level, which posed a problem for the very sustenance of man. Therefore, it is imperative to understand the consequences of manmade initiatives and to devise proper strategies to counteract these detrimental effects to keep a balance of the environment, ecology, green cover, and human livelihood. Since time immemorial Environment and Development are going together as two wheels of cart. The mapping of resource and temporal utilization through the multi-temporal IRS-P6 AWiFS satellite data provides detailed information about the land use land cover changes. This paper explores the temporal composition of the main Land-use/Land-cover (LULC) categories, examines the spatial configuration of the categories, and derives the probabilities of transitions in the Rania block of Sirsa district, Haryana. The present study aims to investigate the mapping of resource and temporal utilization using multi-temporal IRS P6 AWiFS satellite data (2007-2009-10) of Rania block of Sirsa district and to identify the hot spots of land use changes pertaining to various categories. At the same time, land use and land cover transfer matrixes are used to assess the dynamic change trends for different land cover types. The analysis of landuse/land cover data of Rania block of Sirsa district revealed that the major changes occurred in agricultural crop categories. The substantial increase of 33.37 sq. km was observed in double crop area, 12.52 sq. km area increase in kharif only whereas 34.43 sq. km area decrease in rabi only class and 14.62 sq. km area was decrease in current fellow class during 2007 to 2009–10. Total wastelands area in 2007 was 10.77 sq. km that was decreased 4.09 sq. km during 2007 to 2009–10. Total built up area of this block was 4.01 sq. km in 2007 & 7.77 sq. km was observed in 2009–10. Horticultural plantation Strip plantation class was also observed in 2009–10 that covered 2.12 sq. km area. Top Keywords Resource mapping, temporal utilization, AWiFS satellite data, Land use/land cover, Geospatial technology. Top |