TY  - JOUR
T1  - Land use Change Detection: Management of Land using Remote Sensing and Geographiacal
Information System: Rivers State
AU - Wokocha, C.C. AU - Imarhiagbe, O.M. 
JO  - Agricultural Journal
VL  - 15
IS  - 6
SP  - 190
EP  - 195
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2001/08/19
SN  - 1816-9155
DO  - aj.2020.190.195
UR  - https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=aj.2020.190.195
KW  - Land use
KW  -remote sensing
KW  -GIS
KW  -location
KW  -decline
AB  - The land use changes were detected using
Remote sensing and GIS and this was very important in
detecting the nature, rate and location of changes. Change
detection of the study area was carried out for the years,
1994, 1999, 2000, 2004, 2005, 2009, 2010, 2014 and
2019. A land use classification scheme was developed for
the area, There was a major decline in most of the land
use in the study area. This was noted to majorily caused
by mans activities. Water bodies also experienced a
change within the periods worked on. Between 1994 and
1999 the water body area covered was 13576 m but
decreased to 11784 m between 2000 and 2004, despite
this fact the study area experienced a lot of flooding in
few years past and this was deduced to be caused by
illegal dredging activities and sand filling of river paths.
Farm lands, built up areas all changed in dimension in
different years and all these were attributed to mans
activities. Land use change detection was able to help in
determining and comparing the percentage changes as
well of rate a of change and this could help in decision
making.
ER  -