Report of Remoting sensing class project
Land change detection in Riyadh City
Using Remoting Sensing
Among 1986 -2016
Abstract ;
Land change and land cover have become an issue in current world change with many types of impact. It is not affecting the surface of the earth only, but with number of population and demand of houses makes this type at the top of the world issue. Saudi Arabia subject of changing land during the past fifty years, since the Saudi's Government embarked to develop the cities as the outcome of the oil was increasing .The Study evaluates the Land change in Riyadh City from 1986 to 2016 using Landsat images .The change detection was done by using unsuperclassfction in Erdas software and compare it with GIS. The outcome was focusing in the urban areas which have the most increasing changed during the study time .
Location Of City ;
Methodology;
Step1;Data; The data was downloaded by the Earth Explorer
Landsat 5-TM
Landsat 8 OLI
March 19986 OCT 1996
OCT 2000 JAN 2016
Step 2; Classification;
Unsupervised Method;
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Step 3; Subset the images
This step will use two things one to determine the area of interest by using the inquiry box to get the exact area, after that will subset the area by the Raster tool which has the Subset & chip tool. It will automatically define the area.
Step 4 ; Change detection in images
What is Delta Cue
Delta Cue is a software package specifically designed to help you identify changes of interest in remotely sensed imagery acquired on two dates. The software provides a series of algorithms, procedures and automated processing steps central to change detection in a user-friendly form that helps efficiently manage the image processing activities associated with this task.
Introduction ;
In Saudi Arabia, where the desert is more than 70% of biomes, land use and land cover have changed significantly in the most recent time since the Saudi’s government started executing an extreme program of advancement, financed by enormous oil incomes. Saudi Arabia is perceived as a country bragging one of the quickest settlement extensions in the Middle East. This development has brought about changes in a number of natural parts including landscape ecology, hydrological forms, climatic framework and land cover designs. An information of LULC change is basic to comprehend and show complex ecological changes. Spatial examples of LULC should be precisely spoken about and every nitty gritty, with a specific end goal to understand the unpredictable changes in this specific environment.
Results ;
Land Use /Land Change 'LULC' in Riyadh city significant changes during the study time as we can see in the Figures, also results in change between each ten years were provided in the below .The total amount of land cover changed was a huge number out of the total Riyadh city land’s during the forty years 1986, 1996, 2000 and 2016.
Conclusion;
This Project assessed the LULC changes of urban expansion in Riyadh city using Landsat images. This can be concluded that the result below is very obvious, because the population is increasing, and it was surprising that the total population was increasing, according to the office Saudi Government websites from 1,000000 to 7,000000 people in 2016. This amount of land cover change is more helpful to make a good decision for the city development .In summary, information provided by satellite remote sensing, along with ancillary data such as population data, can play a significant role in quantifying and understanding the relationship between population density and LULC changes.
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