Landsat data and its application in landuse and landcover .classification of mining area and technology of assessing the use of land for various large scale development
2. What is a landsat Program ?
The Landsat Program is a series of
Earth-observing satellite missions jointly
managed by NASA and the U.S.
Geological Survey.
Landsat
3. History
Landsat was designed in 1960s by the combined
effort of NASA and US.
Launched in 1972 as the 1st tailored Satellite,
specifically for broad scale observation of the
Earth’s Land areas.
The program was initially called the Earth
Resources Technology Satellites Program, which
was used from 1966 to 1975. In 1975, the name
was changed to Landsat.
4. HOW LANDSAT WORKS
It keeps a continuos observation of the land surface of
the globe.
Their orbit goes from pole to pole and they capture a
new place and then every 16 -18 days and they start to
repeat .
Landsat sensors record reflected and emitted energy
from Earth in various wavelengths of the
electromagnetic spectrum.
Landsats 7 and 8 can record blue, green, and red light
in the visible spectrum as well as near-infrared, mid-
infrared, and thermal-infrared light that human eyes
cannot perceive
Landsat records this information digitally and it is
downlinked to ground stations, processed, and stored
in a data archive.
6. Uses of landsat satellite
Environmental impact assessment
Detection of coal mine fire
Biofuel crop monitoring
Surface mine and reclamation efforts
Detection of coal and mineral deposits
8. Continued …
Landsat 1, 2 and 3 carried the Landsat
Multispectral Scanner (MSS).
Landsat 4 and 5 carried both the MSS and
Thematic Mapper (TM) instruments.
Landsat 7 uses the Enhanced Thematic Mapper
Plus (ETM+) scanner.
Landsat 8 uses two instruments, the Operational
Land Imager (OLI) for optical bands and the
Thermal Infrared Sensor (TIRS) for thermal bands.
10. Case study
STUDY AREA : GODAVARI COAL
FIELDS
The different land use classes mainly water body,
mining area, forest cover, built-up area, barren
land and agriculture land in Godavari coal field
area of southern India are identified and the
impact of land use/land cover change on the
environment are discussed.
The land use/land cover changes in the Godavari
coal field area were analyzed for a period of 24
years i.e., from the year 1990 to 2014.
The changes were detected on a 5-year time
interval using Landsat-5 TM, Landsat-8 OLI and
TIRS satellite images and the human impact on
the landscape are discussed.
11. LULC
Classes
1990 1995 2000 2005 2010 2014
Water Body 1576.97
(2.77)
1910.4
(3.36)
1928.11
(3.39)
2106.44
(3.70)
1809.22
(3.18)
1873.8
(3.29)
Mining Area 25.43
(0.04)
59.91
(0.11)
70.06
(0.12)
72.34
(0.13)
113.09
(0.19)
129.63
(0.23)
Forest Cover 20692.1
(36.38)
19420.9
(34.15)
19052.9
(33.50)
18747.2
(32.96)
18204.64
(32.01)
18009.8
(31.67)
Built Up Area 191.5
(0.34)
293.52
(0.52)
407.2
(0.72)
416.04
(0.73)
481.88
(0.85)
509.25
(0.89)
Barren Land 570.41
(1.00)
911.28
(1.60)
970.84
(1.71)
731.28
(1.29)
855.48
(1.50)
960.68
(1.69)
Agriculture 33814.1
(59.46)
34274.5
(60.27)
34441.4
(60.56)
34797.21
(61.19)
35406.2
(62.26)
35387.35
(62.22)
Table : Areal Distribution of the LULC Classes in the Godavari Coalfields
Area(Expressed in sq. km, values in brackets shows the area in% )
12. Fig :Landuse/Landcover Maps of the study Area for 1990(Top
Left),1995,2000,2005(Bottom Left),2010,2014(Bottom Right)
13. Conclusion
The study shows that there is a direct impact of
mining on forest cover along with other factors.
This study helps in the decision making for land
reclamation and land management in the Godavari
coal field area of India.
14. REFERENCES
www.sciencedirect.com ,egyptian journal of
remote sensing and space science Vol 21
december 2018 page 375 - 381
www.landsatscience.com
www.scholargoogle.co.in
www.tropecol.com
Google images
Wikipedia