TY  - JOUR
T1  - Land Use/Land Cover Change of Sylhet City using Remote Sensing and GIS
AU - Munna, G.M. AU - Sourav, S.R. AU - Imran, Al- AU - Roy, R.K. 
JO  - Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences
VL  - 15
IS  - 13
SP  - 2734
EP  - 2739
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2001/08/19
SN  - 1816-949x
DO  - jeasci.2020.2734.2739
UR  - https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=jeasci.2020.2734.2739
KW  - Sylhet
KW  -Landsat
KW  -NDVI
KW  -water body
KW  -non water body
AB  - Due to various socioeconomic activities and
natural phenomena, the Earth’s surface is undergoing
rapid Land Use and Land Cover (LULC) changes. A
significant growth in built-up areas, i.e., urban
development is increasingly transforming the landscape
from natural cover types to Impervious Surface (IS).
These changes break down the Earth’ps ecological system.
Therefore, detecting the changes for future development
is important. For this research, Sylhet city have been
selected over the time period 2006-2019. The city is
classified into two major land use and land cover changes
such as water body and non-water body. Analysis of
change detection has been conducted to compare the
quantities of conversions of land cover class between time
intervals. The aim of this study is to detect the change in
land-use/land-cover from 2006-20019 and to analyze
possible causes of change. The objective of this research
is to use Geospatial Information System (GIS) methods to
classify and map land-use/land-cover of the study region
use. Geospatial Information System (GIS) one of the tools
that is very important for the production of land use maps
and land cover maps. One of the major section for this
research is Land Use/Land cover (LULC), we used NDVI
method to classify water and non-water body. The rate of
change in LULC between the year 2006 and 2019 is
estimated by assessing percentage change in LULC
between these periods divided by number of years
(13 years). The rate of change indicates that Sylhet city
has lost 7.41% water bodies between 2006-2019. Finally,
some methods to protect the land cover are suggested and
provide an overview of the present trends in land use and
land cover modifications.
ER  -