Nigam, Rajat 
  
2 GEO - INFORMATION FOR MONITORING LAND USE AND LAND COVER CHANGES 
2.1 THE RESEARCH OBJECTIVES 
The main objective is to monitor the land use / land cover changes during the period 1993-96-1998 from satellite images 
of Enschede, The Netherlands, within the frame of this broad objectives of the study are: 
e Identification and delineation of different land use/land cover categories using high-resolution remote sensing data and 
rectified aerial photographs. 
e To generate the statistics of the changes occur in the area in various land use/ land cover categories during the period 
1993 to year 1996 and from 1996 to 1998. 
e To develop a User interface and Hot links and allow accessing the required information. 
2.2 STUDY AREA 
The term “rural urban fringe “ may from an operational point of view, be defined as an area of transition between well 
recognised urban land uses and the area devoted to agricultural [Kurtz & Eicher 1958]. In other words, it is the area of 
mixed urban and rural land uses between the points where the entire range of the city services ceases to be available and 
the point where agricultural land uses began to predominate. There is absence of a clear break between rural and urban 
condition measured both in terms of land use and of the social organisation [Johnson 1972]. This study concentrates on 
the eastern part rural urban fringe of the Enschede City. The location of the study area is 006°54’ to 007° 25’ East 
Longitude and 052?12' to 052? 55' North Latitude . 
2.3 DATA BASE 
Following data sets were used to carry out the study. For 1998, data was collected from field survey only. 
Remotely sensed data 
e Satellite Image of COSMOS 
Merged TM + PAN) 
Year: 1993 
Scale: 1:25,000 
e Satellite Image of IRS —1C 
(Merged LISS —3 + PAN) 
Acquired on: 5" September 1996. 
Path & Row: 21 / 31 
Scale 1:25000 
e Rectified Aerial Photographs Year: 1996. 
Scale: 1:54,00 
Other data 
eo Topographical Map of Enschede city and its Environs. 
Year: 1993 
Number: 34 F 
Scale: 1: 25000 
e Guide map of Enschede City and its Environs. 
Scale: 1:12500 
e Ground Photographs. 
2.4 SOFT WARE / HARD WARE 
The following software and hardware are used to carry out the above study: 
9 Arc / Info 3.5.1 
9 Ilwis 2.1 
° Arc/View 3.0 
9 Personal Computer Pentium 
Scanner HP Scan Jet 11 CX 
  
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