Studying Land Use And Land Cover Change of Kopargaon Tehsil in Maharashtra State Using Geospatial Technology

Land Use and Land Cover (LULC) studies form the backbone of understanding environmental dynamics, urbanization, agriculture, forestry, and ecosystem management. The distinction between Land Use (LU) and Land Cover (LC) is Land Cover refers to the physical characteristics of the Earth's surface, such as vegetation, water bodies, bare soil, or built-up areas. Land Use describes how humans utilize the land, such as for agriculture, urban development, forestry, or recreation. The terms land use and land covers are often used interchangeably, but both concepts are used in different senses. Land cover means vegetation, urban infrastructure, water, open space, soil cover etc. and the land is primarily used for wildlife habitat or land use purposes such as agriculture, industry etc. Land use and land cover are changing day by day due to a growing population and growing needs. To study LULC based on remote sensing (RS) and geographic information system (GIS) techniques, land use and land cover techniques can help us to monitor Spatial-temporal changes in land cover. The main objective of present research paper is to study the land use changes after the construction of Samruddhi expressway in Kopargaon tehsil of Ahmednager district. For this study we use the Time series of annual global maps of land use and land cover (LULC) of ESRI. The downloaded satellite image covered Variable mapped of land use/land cover with Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) Data Projection and there extension is whole globe .The source imagery: Sentinel-2 with Cell Size is 10m resolution. The satellite images are Thematic in data type .The above mention satellite images downloaded from Esri, Microsoft, and Impact Observatory which were published on March 2022. Land use and Land cover data use for the year 2017 and 2021 to find Land Use and Land Cover Change of Kopargaon Tehsil