The Earth’s natural resources play an important role in the production and development of the whole world. The reasonable development and protection of land resource have become the key issues for economic growth. The accuracy and timely updation of land use/land cover classes are of great significance in these studies. Land use and land cover are two major factors for assessment. Land use refers to human activities like agriculture & various uses which are carried on land, while land cover refers to natural vegetation such as forest, water bodies and rock/soil, artificial cover and other zones resulting due to land transformations. Although land use is generally inferred based on the cover, yet both are closely related and interchangeable. The present study is an attempt to classify the land use/land cover (LU/LC) of the study area using Geocoded FCC bands 2, 3 and 4, of IRS 1C and 1D (LISS 111+ PAN merged) on 1:50,000 scale and Survey of India Toposheets as reference.
