LAND USE LAND COVER ANALYSIS OF DEGRADED AREAS IN MUBI-NORTH AND GOMBI LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREAS OF ADAMAWA STATE: NIGERIA

The research study examines the use of Remote Sensing and GIS in mapping Land use Land cover in Mubi/North and Gombi Local government areas between 1986, 1996, 2006 and 2016 so as to detect the changes that has taken place in this status between these periods. Attempt was made at projecting the Land use Land cover and the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) for the past thirty years (30yr) and relating the analyses to Land degradation. The result of the work showed a rapid growth in built up areas between the year 1986 to 2016, while between 1986 to 2006 witness reduction in water surface areas and thus an increase in bare surface areas. The NDVI for same period shows the level of depletion of vegetation cover. Thus land is being degraded. Suggestions were therefore made at the end of the study to use the information as contained therein for sustainable Land management