IMAGE PROCESSING AND REMOTE SENSING – A LULC CHANGE DETECTION USING REMOTELY SENSED DATA FOR COIMBATORE

Land Use is clearly constrained by environmental factors like soil characteristics, climatic conditions, water sources and vegetation. Changes in Land Use and Land Cover is a dynamic process taking place on the earth surface, and the spatial distribution of the changes that have taken place over a period of time and space is of immense importance in many natural studies. Whether regional or local in scope, remote sensing offers a means of acquiring and presenting land cover data in timely manner. The environmental factors reflect the importance of land as a key and finite resource for most human activities including agriculture, industry, forestry, energy production, settlement, recreation and water sources and storage. Often improper land use is causing various forms o