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Remote Sensing based Land Use/Land Cover Change Detection A Case Study of East Twente, Netherlands

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  • Solomon Mulat*

    (Ethiopian Environment and Forest Research Institute, Ethiopia)

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Land use land cover change analysis has become an important element in the development of strategies for natural and environmental resource management. The main aim of this case study was to demonstrate the land use land cover changes that happened between 2002 and 2010 in the eastern Twente, the Netherlands. The study used Spot and Landsat TM images for the study period of 2002 and 2010 respectively. A Pixel-based supervised image classification technique was used for classification of images. Post classification technique was implemented to analyze the changes occurred between the different land cover types over the study period. The result of the post classification comparison method showed that the major change consisted of agriculture and nature conservation areas changed into built up areas. The result demonstrated that a high reduction in conservation and agriculture area coverage with a reduction percentage of 26.12% and 16.62% have happened between the study periods respectively. On the other hand, the built-up area cover has increased by 60.48% between the year 2002 and 2010 study periods. This study informs the need to tackle the expansion of residential areas through careful spatial planning and design future appropriate land management options.

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  • Solomon Mulat*, 2020. "Remote Sensing based Land Use/Land Cover Change Detection A Case Study of East Twente, Netherlands," International Journal of Environmental Sciences & Natural Resources, Juniper Publishers Inc., vol. 23(4), pages 179-184, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:adp:ijesnr:v:23:y:2020:i:4:p:179-184
    DOI: 10.19080/IJESNR.2020.23.556124
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    earth and environment journals; environment journals; open access environment journals; peer reviewed environmental journals; open access; juniper publishers; ournal of Environmental Sciences; juniper publishers journals ; juniper publishers reivew;
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    • R00 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - General - - - General
    • Z0 - Other Special Topics - - General

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