Abstract: Land use and land cover is dominant role in the part of urbanization and urban centers. As the rapid urbanization led various activities in a region and these changes generally takes place in the agricultural land and caused decrease of arable land .The satellite imageries LANDSAT- TM and LANDSAT- ETM data’s are used. The scales are 1:50,000. 1991, 2001 and 2011 covering a period of 20 years the aerial distribution of the land use and land cover changes and population density has been observed. The changes were identified ,in which the decrease of Agricultural land, Natural vegetation, Educational infrastructures, Scrub land and Water body and increase of Built up land, Fallow land, River sand and Without scrub land. The land use and land cover maps are prepared by using GIS software to evaluate the changes and it is showed strong variation.
Keywords: Land Use Land Cover, Tiruchirappalli, Landsat, Population.
Title: SPATIO-TEMPORAL DISTRIBUTION OF MAJOR URBAN CENTERS IN TIRUCHIRAPPALLI DISTRICT OF TAMILNADU
Author: Sakthivel.M, Murugesan.S
International Journal of Interdisciplinary Research and Innovations
ISSN 2348-1218 (print), ISSN 2348-1226 (online)
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