Forest land Convert into Urban land due to Urbanization in

Khagrachori district
BACKGROUD OF THE STUDY STUDY AREA
The selected area of this
Now a days deforestation is one of the project is Khagrachori.
main problem of Bangladesh. Over the Khagrachori is a hilly
last several years, there has been a area.This district covers the
trend of increased urban land from area of 2699.55 sq km. For
agricultural land due to urbanization. this project the Khagrachori
By the application of remote sensing district satelite images are
software we can easily calculate how collected from USGS
much agricultural/ forest land software. Two images are
converted into urban land. collected. That are in the
year of 2000 & 2010 images
GOALS & OBJECTIVES are collected which are Study Area

GOAL: located at the same place.

The goal of our project is to identify the
percentage of conversion of agricultural METHODOLOGY
land into urban land in 2000-2010. Collect the landsat image from
USGS
OBJECTIVES
1. To describe land cover change Data processing Major findings
2.To provide statistical data about the Layer stack Subset 1. We find that buildup are incresing
land use change from 2000 to 2010.
3.To provide visuals to help with the Supervised classification

understanding of this change 2. Also find that temperature also

Calculating land use 2000 2010
Year increasing
TOOLS & MATERIALS Change detection
Ÿ Satellite Landsat image ( 4-5) in 2000 year of Khagrachori Highest 14.2323 16.3323
district
Ÿ Satellite Landsat image (4-5) in 2010 year of Khagrachori Land surface temparature
Low 20.23234 27.3242
district est
Ÿ ERDAS IMAGINE
Ÿ ARC GIS
Map presenting STUDENT ID : 1505026