Landuse/ Landcover Mapping of Kamalapuram Surrounding area ,Andhrapradesh, India, Using Unsupervised Classification Technique

Volume : IV, Issue : IV, April - 2015

B. Venkatesh

Land use and land cover has become a central component in current strategies for managing natural resources and

monitoring environmental changes. To maintain the present natural resources and to understand the causes and

consequences of over exploitation of soil and water resources the land use, a land cover mapping was done in the study

area i.e. Kamalapuram ,Kurnool District. In this study, satellite image for March 2013 were used for LULC (Land Use/ Land Cover) Un Supervised

classification. For the classification purposes, seven LULC classes were decided. The most extensive land cover category of the Study area is land

with/without scrub i.e. 32.34%. The second most extensive land cover category is Forest, 26.98%.