Dipanshu Priyadarshi - Project

Change detection analysis in land use / land cover of Vadodara City using remotely sensed data.

Acknowledgement

First of all, we would like to thank God, who has always been my guidance and support, Now, we take this opportunity to express my sincere thanks to my Academic mentor Dr. Pradeep (Asst. Professor) for their guidance, suggestion and support. We would also like to express our gratitude to him for showing faith in us and we also want to show our profound gratitude to our Industrial Mentor Shri Akash Pandey (GIS Analyst – Bhoomi Cam) who help me throughout the whole project and the way he guided us by taking time out of his busy schedule. It was a privilege to have a great experience working under him in a cordial environment. We have learnt so many things that we are sure that, will help me in future for building a strong foundation for our career. We are very much thankful to the Gati Shakti Vishwavidyalaya (GSV), for providing us the opportunity to have a project to gain the understanding of the industry and have a good experience. I am also very much thankful to my family & friends for providing support all the time, whenever I need.

Abstract

This report is a study of land use and land cover changes, which has been done in Vadodara district of Gujarat state of India, in which an attempt has been made to, the years 1995, 2000, 2005, 2010, 2015, 2020, and In the current situation of 2023, what changes have taken place in various categories like follow land, settlement, water body and vegetation should be found out. The main objective of this study is these three, which comes in the study area from 1995 to 2000, 2005. To analyze land use land cover changes by 2010, 2015, 2020, 2023. To reach the implications of observed changes in fallow land, settlement, vegetation and water body through the study area. To make appropriate recommendations for further sustainable development. To carry out this entire process, software named USGS, GEE, QGIS, ArcGIS and Envi have been used, in which mainly USGS has been used to download datasets of Landsat images of different years, from where the images are taken. It has been downloaded and later classified, GEE means Google Earth Engine, basically it has been used to visualize the area, also we have created the study area map on QGIS, after which the classification has been done on ArcGIS and Envi. After this, the quality of change detection has been ensured by doing accuracy assessment. Later, using different methodology, we have made statistics table of different years which is telling about the categories written in our objectives, after that there is some analysis of those categories and finally the report has been concluded. Appendix 1 of the report presents the Landsat datasets, and Appendix 2 presents the various procedures performed during classification.

Problem Statement

As it had been seeing from previous years a lots of unauthorised development took place in Vadodara city which result in land encroachment as well as due to several infrastructural development projects lots of trees where cuts and also land acquisition done a large scale which will further result in the environmental pollution as well as degradation of loss of land take place, so that's why there is a need to describe land use & land cover changes for sustainable environmental planning of Vadodara city.

Objectives

1. To analyse the land use / land cover changes in the study area over a period of time.

2. To access the implications of changes observed in study area.

3. To make the appropriate recommendations for the further sustainable growth

Study Area - Vadodara, Gujarat

Vadodara,

The City is also known as Baroda, is a major city in the Indian state of Gujarat. It serves as the administrative headquarters of the Vadodara district and is situated on the banks of the Vishwamitri River, it's a cosmopolitan city extended in 220.33 km² (approx.) which in mainly a Gujrati speaking area, beside Marathi, Hindi, Urdu, Sindhi & English spoken. Some groups use Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Bengali & other languages. As per 2021 census the population of the city is 1741791 which is 22,40,522 approximated as of now as per the data available on Vadodara Municipal Corporation, The altitude of the city is 35.5 meters above sea level. Talking about Vadodara district, which covers the area of 7,546 km², which is approx. 3.85% of the total area of Gujrat, and one of out of the total 33 districts of Gujrat. For more details about Vadodara City, Please visit : https://vmc.gov.in/ .