Assessment of Land Use Land Cover at Mining Areas in Panadhro, Kachchh using Remote Sensing and GIS

Land use and land cover is a very important factor to understand the relation between the human and the environment. Land cover change is a major keynote of global environmental change. The development of any region is dependent on the urbanization and industrialization; however, the development sometimes shows an adverse impact on the environment resulting in loss of biological wealth of an ecosystem. Panadhro and the surrounding villages like Fulara and Khanot of Kachchh district are having abundant of coal minerals. There are lots of changes in Land Use Land Cover (LULC) because of the exploration of the minerals in this area. Remote Sensing (RS) and Geographic Information System (GIS) are very effective tools for analysis of land use and land cover changes at a regional level. This research explains the use of RS and GIS technology for the detection of LULC changes in the study area. Image classification has been done by ERDAS imagine. It is observed that LULC changes have been detected in last 13 yrs. mainly in the open land followed by the water bodies. The study has been pointed out the various effects of coal mining activities on the land use.