Land Use Land Cover Detection from Naldurg Area of Osmanabad District, Maharashtra, India

LULC mapping is one of the most important applications of remote sensing. Land use widely used in the development of groundwater resources. The hydrogeological processes such as Infiltration, evapotranspiration, surface runoff etc. were controlled by land use. Surface cover provide roughness to the surfaces, reduce discharge there by increases the infiltration. In the forest areas, infiltration will be higher and runoff will be less whereas in urban areas rate of infiltration may decrease. Remote sensing techniques will give detailed information with respect to spatial distribution of land use and vegetation type in minimum time and low cost in comparison to other conventional data. Land Use Land Cover of study area has been analyzed for 2018 LISS III image. The investigated area shows that major portion in land use is Vegetation and Agriculture land 81%, Barren land covering area 14.12%, water body covering area 2.60% and settlement covering area 1.53%.