MONITORING OF LAND COVER CHANGE DYNAMICS USING REMOTE SENSING AND GIS IN MOUNTAINS AND FOOTHILL OF PARKENT FOR ECOSYSTEM SERVICES

Abstract

Remote sensing and Geographical Information System (GIS) are the most effective tools in spatial data analysis. Natural resources like land, forest, and water, these techniques have proved a valuable source of information generation as well as in the management and planning purposes. This study aims to suggest possible bare land/open land, agriculture land, and forest land management strategies in mountains and highlands of East Tian-shan based on land cover analysis and the changing pattern observed during the last twenty years. Nowadays human encroachment is taking place for more land for the misuse of pastures. The changes were well observed in the land use and land cover in the study region. A large part of fallow land and open forest were converted into bare land/open land. Geo-informatics and remote sensing techniques give an opportunity to obtain results with low costs, less time consumption, and good accuracy of land cover changing. Continuously capture the Earth’s surface and decision-makers can easily apply satellite imagery to monitor dynamics of change land cover.