EVALUATION OF LAND USE/LAND COVER ON MINING AREA: A MODEL STUDY

This study presents the land use patterns for the core (658.26hectares) and buffer zones of mining area. Core zone is the area where the actual mining activity takes place and the buffer zone is the surrounding area of 10Km radius from core zone periphery. Hybrid digital classification technique is leveraged for this study. This technique gives unambiguous visual interpretation and supervised classification mixed with recoding practice. Core zone mapping has done with the satellite data. On screen digitization has carried out with the help of drawing files prepared by mine surveyors and collected field data. Supervised digital classification is performed on LISS-IV data and recoded each class separately. The identified potential classes of land use patterns in the core zone are. This type of study is useful for maintain the evaluate the environmental conditions and land use pattern changes.