ANALYZING THE IMPACT OF ROHINGYA SETTLEMENT ON LAND USE, VEGETATION & LAND SURFACE TEMPERATURE AT BHASAN CHAR, BANGLADESH

The Rohingya are a recognized Indo-Aryan ethnic minority that mostly follow Islam and live in Myanmar’s Rakhine State, formerly known as Burma. Prior to the massacre of the Rohingya people in 2017, when over 740,000 people fled to Bangladesh, an estimated 1.4 million Rohingya lived in Myanmar. Over 700,000 Rohingya refugees have been compelled to leave Myanmar since 2017 and relocate to Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. For the accommodation of these huge amount of people the government of Bangladesh chose Bhasan char. This study will assess the impacts of this settlement to the char area in respect to the changes in vegetation, growth of buildup areas and the changes in climatic pattern. This study aims to make a comparative analysis of different spectral indices for analyzing the ecological change pattern in terms of vegetation & buildup of the area. GIS, Remote Sensing and Statistical analyses have been utilized for this observation. The opportunity to integrate field parameters with the Rohingya population and other pertinent data can be provided by the Geographical Information System (GIS), which will aid in evaluating the issue and its effects. For this this study will use different indices like NDVI, NDWI, NDBI, LST etc. A few years ago, the area was full of trees and waterbodies but now the land use pattern has been changed. So that it is creating negative climatic impact on that area. As the growth pattern of the buildup area is increasing alarmingly so the temperature of the land is increasing with the decreasing rate of the greenery, because of creating land for buildup area. This study will further help to determine the changes and its impacts to this area and will help to minimize the inverse result