GEO - Information
for Monitoring Land Use and Land Cover Changes The Research Objectives The main
objective is to monitor the land use / land cover changes during the period
1993-96-1998 from satellite images of Enschede, The Netherlands, within the
frame of this broad objectives of the study are:
- Identification and delineation of different land use/land cover categories
using high-resolution remote sensing data and rectified aerial photographs.
- To generate the statistics of the changes occur in the area in various land
use/ land cover categories during the period 1993 to year 1996 and from 1996 to
1998.
- To develop a User interface and Hot links and allow accessing the required
information
Study Area The term "rural urban fringe " may from an operational point
of view, be defined as an area of transition between well recognised urban land
uses and the area devoted to agricultural [Kurtz & Eicher 1958]. In other
words, it is the area of mixed urban and rural land uses between the points
where the entire range of the city services ceases to be available and the point
where agricultural land uses began to predominate. There is absence of a clear
break between rural and urban condition measured both in terms of land use and
of the social organisation [Johnson 1972]. This study concentrates on the
eastern part rural urban fringe of the Enschede City. The location of the study
area is 006°54¢ to 007° 25¢ East Longitude and 052°12¢ to 052° 55¢ North
Latitude .
Data base Following data sets were used to carry out
the study. For 1998, data was collected from field survey only.
Remotely sensed data
- Satellite Image of COSMOS
Merged TM + PAN)
Year: 1993
Scale:
1:25,000
- Satellite Image of IRS -1C
(Merged LISS -3 + PAN)
Acquired on: 5th
September 1996.
Path & Row: 21 / 31
Scale 1:25000
- Rectified Aerial Photographs Year: 1996.
Scale:
1:54,00
Other data
- Topographical Map of Enschede city and its Environs.
Year:
1993
Number: 34 F
Scale: 1: 25000
- Guide map of Enschede City and its Environs.
Scale: 1:12500
- Ground Photographs.
Software / Hardware The following
software and hardware are used to carry out the above study:
- Arc / Info 3.5.1
- Ilwis 2.1
- Arc/View 3.0
- Personal Computer Pentium
- Scanner HP Scan Jet 11 CX