• Dr. Shital Shukla
• Nartan Rajpriya

Ahmedabad is the fastest growing city of India. Due to the rapid development, urban open space is under strong pressure in Ahmedabad city. In this paper Land-use and Land-cover changed detection is assessed for an area within the distance of 1 km. from the banks of Sabarmati River in Ahmedabad city. In this study Indian remote sensing satellite data of LISS III and LISS IV sensors covering Ahmedabad city for the years of 2008 and 2014 were analysed for identification of land use classes and monitoring the changes in land use. The NDVI images of 2008 and 2014 were generated to identify vegetation classes like dense vegetation, grass, shrubs, and cultivated fields. Using GIS techniques a buffer of 1 km on both sides of Sabarmati River was created for monitoring changes in land use along the Sabarmati River bed. This is important because of the recent development of river front project which is supposed to improve the urban quality of life is reducing the open space and gardens. Satellite data was classified using the unsupervised classification techniques. The various urban land use classes were identified on the unsupervised image based on field visits and also the NDVI Image. Based on this analysis, various urban land use classes like open spaces, built-up area, water bodies as well as green cover areas were mapped. These results of this study indicate that the area around 1 km buffer zone of Sabarmati River is under development face. Due to this the river bed is shrinking, water flow is becoming less and the natural green cover area has reduced on both the sides of the river bank within 1 km buffer. Moreover, in future many buildings may be developed on the bank of the river under the River front project.

Change detection; unsupervised classification; land-use and land-cover; NDVI, change monitoring

"Land Use Change Detection Analysis of the River Front Project area Using Remote Sensing and GIS Techniques: A Case Study of Ahmedabad City", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 11, page no.492-501, November-2018, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1811672.pdf

"Land Use Change Detection Analysis of the River Front Project area Using Remote Sensing and GIS Techniques: A Case Study of Ahmedabad City", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 11, page no. pp492-501, November-2018, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1811672.pdf