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

Preciouswell Nongsiej^1, and H.J. Syiemlieh¹

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

Cite this paper:
Preciouswell Nongsiej and 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

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.

Keywords:
road widening land use land cover change detection Nongpoh

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