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Bhakta .G.P, (1995) Geography of Meghalaya, Shillong; Bimal Bawri, India.

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Road Widening and Land Use Land cover Change Detection at Nongpoh Town Meghalaya

1Geography Department, North Eastern Hill University, Shillong, India


Applied Ecology and Environmental Sciences. 2020, Vol. 8 No. 5, 278-281
DOI: 10.12691/aees-8-5-14
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Preciouswell Nongsiej, H.J. Syiemlieh. Road Widening and Land Use Land cover Change Detection at Nongpoh Town Meghalaya. Applied Ecology and Environmental Sciences. 2020; 8(5):278-281. doi: 10.12691/aees-8-5-14.

Correspondence to: Preciouswell  Nongsiej, Geography Department, North Eastern Hill University, Shillong, India. Email: preciousnongs@yahoo.com

Abstract

Road networks is a key ingredient to economic Growth and development. The present research, study and detect the changes in land use and land cover at a micro level. In this study, the dynamic change of land use and land cover has been studied by using a GIS based technique Landsat imagery captured before road widening (2011) and road widening (2018). Road widening has led to the drastic change of land use and land cover at Nongpoh by the introduction of new land use class and change in the area of land use pattern.

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