Understanding
the
dynamics
of
land
use
and
cover
(LULC)
change
in
today's
context
rapid
urbanization
is
critical
for
sustainable
urban
planning
environmental
conservation.
Therefore,
research
aim
to
understand
LULC
changes
Chattogram
Metropolitan
Area
assess
policy
implications
these
development.
Through
a
comparative
analysis
maps
two
periods
(1997–2007;
2007–2017),
we
investigated
transformation
detailed
zone
before
after
area
plan
(DAP)
approval.
Using
mixed-method
approach
integrating
quantitative
data
with
analysis,
elucidated
impacts
trends
on
local
ecosystems—specifically
conversion
forest
waterscape
use.
The
findings
reveal
significant
forested
areas
peri-urban
landscapes,
highlighting
urgent
need
interventions
that
focus
areas.
study
further
critiques
DAP's
effectiveness,
revealing
disconnect
between
regional
implementation
outcomes.
This
proposes
validated,
scalable
framework
master
plans
adapts
complex
socio-ecological
contexts
rapidly
urbanizing
regions.
Scientific Reports,
Journal Year:
2025,
Volume and Issue:
15(1)
Published: April 8, 2025
Land
use
land
cover
change
due
to
urbanization
is
the
prime
driving
forces
environmental
problem
and
surface
temperature.
The
gap
of
study
lack
awareness
stakeholders
regarding
protection
native
forests,
fruit
trees,
BEBEKA
coffee
plantations.
Deforestation
for
urban
functions,
including
timber
production,
construction
materials,
firewood,
adversely
affects
environment.
aim
this
was
analyze
effect
on
Use
Cover
Change
(LULCC)
at
Mizan
Aman
city,
southwest
Ethiopia
from
1992
2022
using
geographic
information
systemand
remote
sensing
technique.
employed
systematic
sampling
household
surveys
high-resolution
techniques
identify
impact
temperature
change.
Sample
survey
focused
family
size,
education
level,
parcel,
year
house,
type
employment
monthly
income.
LULC
classification
were
based
eight
class
(settlement,
dense
forest,
moderate
sparse
closed
grassland,
open
shrub
land,
annual
crop
land).
Preprocessing,
images
accuracy
assessment
tested
separately
kappa
coefficient.
analysis
incorporates
factor
graph
optimization
ambiguity
resolution.
results
indicated
that
cumulative
81.52%,
82.96%,
85.41%
84.46%
coefficient
82.41%,
84.86%,
89.45%
88.76%%
1992,
2002,
2012
respectively.
This
research
showed
forest
significantly
decreased
by
68.96%,
24.60%,
31.36%
8.28%
respectively
in
last
30
years.
Urban
settlement
increased
alarming
rate
demand
housing,
infrastructure
manufacturing.
Therefore,
planners
must
prioritize
sustainable
management,
integrated
zoning,
active
community
involvement
order
protect
against
unsustainable
changes
cover.
For
future
research,
incorporating
methodologies
such
as
multi-source
imaging
will
help
differentiate
more
effectively.
City
experiences
a
nine-month
rainy
season
with
hot
climate,
cloud
can
affect
image
quality,
making
it
challenging
map
covers
clearly.
Utilizing
SENTINEL
data
enhance
resolution
improve
spatio-temporal
monitoring
frameworks.
Furthermore,
integrating
CO2
estimation
could
offer
deeper
insights
into
associated
urbanization.
Earth,
Journal Year:
2023,
Volume and Issue:
4(3), P. 728 - 751
Published: Sept. 15, 2023
The
main
aim
of
this
study
is
to
comprehensively
analyze
the
dynamics
land
use
and
cover
(LULC)
changes
in
Bathinda
region
Punjab,
India,
encompassing
historical,
current,
future
trends.
To
forecast
LULC,
Cellular
Automaton–Markov
Chain
(CA)
based
on
artificial
neural
network
(ANN)
concepts
was
used
using
cartographic
variables
such
as
environmental,
economic,
cultural.
For
segmenting
a
combination
ML
models,
support
vector
machine
(SVM)
Maximum
Likelihood
Classifier
(MLC).
empirical
nature,
it
employs
quantitative
analyses
shed
light
LULC
variations
through
time.
result
indicates
that
barren
expected
shrink
from
55.2
km2
1990
5.6
2050,
signifying
better
management
or
increasing
human
activity.
Vegetative
expanses,
other
hand,
are
rise
81.3
205.6
reflecting
balance
between
urbanization
ecological
conservation.
Agricultural
fields
increase
2597.4
2859.6
2020
before
stabilizing
at
2898.4
2050.
Water
landscapes
13.4
providing
possible
issues
for
water
resources.
Wetland
regions
decrease,
thus
complicating
irrigation
groundwater
reservoir
sustainability.
These
findings
confirmed
by
strong
statistical
indices,
with
study’s
high
kappa
coefficients
Kno
(0.97),
Kstandard
(0.95),
Klocation
(0.97)
indicating
reasonable
level
accuracy
CA
prediction.
From
F1
score,
significant
issue
found
MLC
vegetation,
resolved
SVM
classification.
can
be
inform
policy
plans
sustainable
development
beyond.
Land,
Journal Year:
2023,
Volume and Issue:
12(5), P. 1041 - 1041
Published: May 10, 2023
Recently
land-use
planning
and
green
environment
services
have
been
considered
as
inseparable
parts
of
the
design
trail
paths
for
a
sustainable
development.
At
present
there
is
need
holistic
overview
land
uses
cover,
to
be
linked
with
natural
regional
The
key
determinants
such
an
approach
embody
changes
in
wake
drivers
anthropocentric
well
global
greenhouse
gases,
causing
climate
change
affecting
biodiversity.
In
this
study
main
research
objects
previously
developed
studies
were
systematically
approached
by
search
literature
through
Scopus
database
using
these
four
fields
keywords:
(a)
“land
use”
AND
development,
(b)
“trail
path”
“article
titles”
subcategory
“land”,
(c)
“sustainable
development”,
and,
(d)
“sustainable”
“trail”.
derived
documents
collected
organized
into
following
domains,
being
paired
together
by:
year
country/territory,
keyword
subject
area.
classification
was
followed
calculation
relevant
“intensity
ratios”
that
disclose
well-defined
emerging
further
perspectives
regarding
use
particular
dynamics
development
paths.
Geology Ecology and Landscapes,
Journal Year:
2022,
Volume and Issue:
8(3), P. 287 - 305
Published: Oct. 14, 2022
In
the
cities
of
developing
countries
like
India,
rapid
and
uncontrolled
urbanization
has
been
taking
place
due
to
continuous
population
growth
in
last
few
decades.
As
a
result,
land
use/land
cover
(LU/LC)
is
changing
very
fast
countries.
Therefore,
this
study
aims
examine
changes
LU/LC
pattern
Delhi
during
1991–2018
simulate
future
for
2030.
The
mapping
was
done
from
Landsat
datasets
using
k-means
clustering
technique.
cellular
automata
(CA)
technique
integrated
with
artificial
neural
network
(ANN)
simulating
patterns.
projected
shows
that
Delhi's
built-up
area
will
increase
nearly
60%
total
city,
while
cropland
open
decrease
19.86
0.15%,
respectively.
highest
observed
northern,
western,
south-western
sub-districts
Delhi.
Outcomes
may
be
used
use
planning
other
cities.
addition,
they
can
also
provide
valuable
insights
development
transportation
facilities
amenities
areas
urban
expansion.
Remote Sensing,
Journal Year:
2023,
Volume and Issue:
15(5), P. 1291 - 1291
Published: Feb. 26, 2023
Land
use–land
cover
(LULC)
is
an
important
feature
for
ecological
environment
research,
land
resource
management
and
evaluation.
Although
global
high-resolution
LULC
data
sets
are
booming,
their
regional
performances
were
still
evaluated
in
limited
regions.
To
demonstrate
the
local
applicability
of
products,
six
emerging
products
compared
Guangxi,
China.
The
used
European
Space
Agency
GlobCover
(ESAGC),
ESRI
Use–Land
Cover
(ESRI–LULC),
Finer
Resolution
Observation
Monitoring
Global
(FROM–GLC),
China
Dataset
(CLCD),
product
with
Fine
Classification
System
at
30
m
(GLC_FCS30)
GlobeLand30
(GLC30).
Reference
obtained
from
government
statistical
yearbook
remote
sensing
images
on
Google
Earth.
results
showed
that
CLCD,
ESRI–LULC
GLC30
found
to
agree
well
forest
reference
data,
highest
correlation
coefficient
0.999.
For
cropland
areas,
GLC30,
CLCD
ESAGC
agreed
was
0.957.
Combined
comparison
by
Earth,
we
finally
concluded
ESAGC,
can
best
represent
LULCs
Guangxi.
Furthermore,
spatial
consistency
analysis
three
or
more
identified
same
type
as
high
96.98%
area.
We
suggest
majority
voting
might
be
applied
provide
fused
better
a
scale
avoid
error
caused
single
product.
Remote Sensing,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
16(9), P. 1566 - 1566
Published: April 28, 2024
Reliable
and
up-to-date
training
reference
samples
are
imperative
for
land
cover
(LC)
classification.
However,
such
datasets
not
always
available
in
practice.
The
sample
migration
method
has
shown
remarkable
success
addressing
this
challenge
recent
years.
This
work
investigated
the
application
of
Sentinel-1
(S1)
Sentinel-2
(S2)
data
migration.
In
addition,
impact
various
spectral
bands
polarizations
on
accuracy
migrated
was
also
assessed.
Subsequently,
combined
S1
S2
images
were
classified
using
Support
Vector
Machines
(SVM)
Random
Forest
(RF)
classifiers
to
produce
annual
LC
maps
from
2017
2021.
results
showed
a
higher
(98.25%)
migrations
both
comparison
(87.68%)
(96.82%)
independently.
Among
classes,
highest
found
water,
built-up,
bare
land,
grassland,
cropland,
wetland.
Inquiries
efficiency
different
polarization
used
that
4
8
VV
water
class
more
important,
while
wetland
class,
5,
6,
7,
8,
8A
together
with
superior
performance.
RF
classifier
provided
better
performance
than
SVM
(higher
overall,
producer,
user
accuracy).
Overall,
our
findings
suggested
shared
use
can
be
as
suitable
means
producing
high-quality
samples.
Sustainability,
Journal Year:
2023,
Volume and Issue:
15(16), P. 12329 - 12329
Published: Aug. 13, 2023
Anthropogenic
activities
have
a
significant
influence
on
land
use
and
cover
(LULC)
changes,
especially
in
rapidly
growing
areas.
Among
several
models,
the
combination
of
cellular
automata–artificial
neural
network
(CA-ANN)
model
is
being
widely
used
for
assessing
future
LULC
changes
using
satellite
images.
This
study
aimed
to
investigate
Gazipur
City
Corporation
(GCC),
Bangladesh,
patterns
over
last
two
decades
(2002
2022).
In
this
study,
maximum
likelihood
supervised
classification
technique
was
processing
available
The
results
show
that
urban
area
vegetation
coverage
increased
by
150%
22.78%,
whereas
bare
waterbody
decreased
7.02%
78.9%,
respectively,
from
2002
2022
inside
GCC
area.
For
predictions,
CA-ANN
developed,
accuracy
percentage
which
86.49%,
kappa
value
0.83.
prediction
will
increase
47.61%,
are
supposed
decrease
24.17%
67.23%,
2042.
findings
could
be
useful
sustainable
planning
management,
as
well
enabling
decision
making
authorities
improvements
environmental
ecological
conditions