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Mapping and Analyzing Land use Change in Abia State between 1986 and 2023

Ibeabuchi Uwadiegwu, Nwilo Peter Chigozie, Kalu A. Obialo, Egbu A. U

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There have been significant changes in Land use/Land cover type in Abia state in the last decades (from 1986-2003) due to the rapid pace of urbanization. Remote sensing and Geographic Information System (GIS) data has proved to be extremely useful for land use change studies in terms of providing information for analyzing land use trend, land consumption rate and absorption coefficient magnitude for each specified study year. Also, land use dynamic metrics such as annual deforestation rate, land-use intensity index, and secondary forest mean proportion were analyzed. Cellular Automata model was adopted to predict land-use changes over time for 2023.  The results revealed that forest and agricultural land uses are the most threatened. The land use change and spatial pattern analysis were accounted for each land use classes as well as its transition from one class to another. The accuracy assessment was used to validate modeled land use change map to show that the adopted image processing approach is effective in producing compatible land use /land cover map and data over time.

 

Keywords: Abia State, Land use/land cover, GIS, Accuracy Assessment, Remote Sensing, Cellular Automata.

Cite this Article: Ibeabuchi Uwadiegwu, Nwilo Peter Chigozie , Kalu A. Obialo, Egbu A. U. Mapping and Analyzing Land use Change in Abia State between 1986 and 2023. International Journal of Satellite Communication & Remote Sensing. 2019; 5 (2): 12-22p.


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DOI: https://doi.org/10.37591/jscrs.v5i2.1187

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