SPATIAL-TEMPORAL ANALYSIS ON LAND USE AND LAND COVER CHANGES IN AMARAVATI, ANDHRA PRADESH USING GIS

The present study is conducted to ascertain changes in land use and land cover for the Amaravati capital region, Andhra Pradesh. As an initial step, Government of Andhra Pradesh is extending the study area up to 234 km2 and in future the capital region is going to extend up to 7068 km2 approximately. To demarcate the categories of land use and land cover for 234 km2 area, LANDSAT 7 satellite images are collected for the years 2009 and 2018. Geo-informatics technology is used to categorise land use and land cover and also to detect changes that occurred during the periods. Based on the analysis of the report, waste and urban lands are increased by 27% and 8.23% respectively for the period of 2018 and also noticed that agricultural and fallow lands are decreased by 15.84% and 9.11% respectively for the same period. The present study observed that variation in water bodies is only 0.62%. From the results of this study concluded that most of the vegetation and fallow lands are converting in to the waste land and urban area