Identification and Statistical Analysis of Landuse and Land Cover Patterns in Southern Haripur Tehsil, KPK with Techniques of Remote Sensing and GIS

Abstract

This research was carried out to digitize and interpret the land use and land cover patterns of the southern Haripur tehsil with remote sensing and Geographical Information System techniques. Interpretation was done with the topographical map of Haripur district and online images of Landsat 7, 2012, Google earth 2016 and zoom level image of Landsat 8, 2015 (Urban unit, 2015). Global Positioning System (GPS) coordinates were collected via field work for ground verification of the features. For statistical analysis, Arc GIS 9.3 and Excel sheet 2010 was used. From the analysis it was found that the maximum agricultural area was 265.47 sq.km. The other two classes i.e. railway station and river bars covered minimum area of 0.01 sq.km. In this paper it was found the maximum area was covered by the agricultural land that was 265.47sq.km. The two other classes i.e. railway stations and river bars which covered a minimum area (0.01 sq.km). An area of 46.02 sq.km was without cover.

Keywords

• Remote sensing
• geographical information system
• land use
• land cover
• statistical analysis.