Land use/land cover mapping of Jharia coal field using Landsat-5 TM satellite data
Abstract
It is very important and necessary to manage natural resources of the land using land use/land cover (LU/LC) mapping. Remote sensing plays a vital role in the natural resources management these days. In this paper Jharia coal field was taken as the study area which is situated in the heart of Damodar River Dhanbad, Jharkhand. The maximum likelihood classifier (MLC) was used for the LU/LC mapping of Jharia coal field using Landsat-5 TM satellite data of the year 1992. The five different classes such as water bodies, vegetation, settlement, bare ground and coal area were classified and the area was also computed. It was found from the classification that water bodies occupy about 3484.69 hectare (6.01%), vegetation 9156.56 hectare (15.78%), settlement 7532.47 hectare (12.99%), bare ground 33073.11 hectare (57.01%) and coal area 4763.64 hectare (8.21%) of the total area.
