a study of land use land cover change detection through remote sensing and gis for nagapattinam coastal stretch, south india

The Land use/ land cover map generated from Landsat and Resource sat image from 1991, 1999, 2008 for the coastal tract of Nagapattinam district. The changes were noticed along the coastal tract. The inferred data were validated in the field and the results were derived. agricultural land, fallow land, build up land, water bodies, river, mangrove, mangrove forest, land with scrub, land without scrub, and port, this shows the major land cover on this area. The results indicate that agriculturalland and fallow land are the dominant land use tone in Nagapattinam coastal tract. There is very less land cover modification isnoticed in mangrove, mangrove forest, and Salt pans in the study area