Analysis of Land Use and Land Cover Change of Numan, Numan Local Government Area of Adamawa State
1Ogwu, Friday Adejoh, & Ogwuche, Victoria Ene1
1Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Modibbo Adama University of Technology, Yola
Jigawa State Urban Planning Board, Dutse
Email: fridayogwu@mautech.edu.ng
ABSTRACT
This paper examines the use of GIS and remote sensing in mapping land use/land cover of Numan between 1991 and 2019 so as to detect the changes that has been taken place in this status between these periods. Image processing and image classification in order to establish the land use and land cover changes in Numan within 1991 and 2019, Landsat images of the district were downloaded from the Earth Explorer a USGS resources as well as Google Earth image domain. The USGS data product is provided as image file and was processed using ArcMap as well as Excel. The period of
land of LULC analysis covered roughly a period of twenty eight years, ranging from 1991 to 2019. As anticipated, the result showed an increase in urbanization while decrease in bare surface and vegetation cover. The use of satellite imagery has become one of the strongest tools for analyzing and
interpreting the complex systems of the earth and the anthropogenic influences that continue to pressure the planets limited resources.
Keywords: Land Use; Land Cover, and GIS and Remote sensing, Numan
