Dynamics of Land-Use/Land-Cover Change in Nubra Valley, Ladakh, India

Abstract ID: 3.12696 | Accepted as Poster | Requested as: Talk | TBA | TBA

Bindhy Wasini Pandey (1)
Saransh, Saransh (1); Ambrish, Ambrish (1)

(1) University of Delhi, University of Delhi, 110007 Delhi, IN

Categories: Cryo- & Hydrosphere, Ecosystems, Fieldwork
Keywords: Ladakh, Land Use, Tourism, Remote Sensing

Categories: Cryo- & Hydrosphere, Ecosystems, Fieldwork
Keywords: Ladakh, Land Use, Tourism, Remote Sensing

Abstract

The tourism industry in Ladakh experienced significant growth after 1974, leading to an indiscriminate transformation in Ladakh’s LU/LC pattern through various activities, such as expanding agricultural land to support the increasing demand for vegetables and fruits and infrastructure development (guest houses and hotels) for tourists. Recognizing these LU/LC changes is crucial for prospective Nubra Valley land management planning. The present analysis utilizes geospatial techniques for mapping and monitoring the LU/LC changes in the Nubra Valley watershed, Ladakh, from 1992 to 2023. The Landsat series multispectral satellite images were used to classify the five major LU/LC categories: barren land, built-up, snow cover, vegetation and water bodies. The supervised classification technique with a maximum likelihood approach was used to classify the satellite image. The accuracy assessment of LU/LC was evaluated using the error matrix and kappa coefficient. The overall accuracy and kappa accuracy of classified images was 88.24% and 84.86% in 1992, 94.62% and 93.05% in 2009, and 98.81% and 98.46% in 2023, respectively. Results reveal that from 1992 to 2023, LU/LC change detection analysis shows that class vegetation, built-up, and barren land have increased by 3.13%, 0.37%, and 0.07%, respectively, from 1992 to 2023. Other classes, such as snow cover and waterbodies, decreased by 3.77% and 0.09%, respectively, from 1992 to 2023. Thus, this study envisions that the results might deliver details to decision-makers for better sustainable land management and utilisation of natural resources.

Choose the session you want to submit an abstract. Please be assured that similar sessions will either be scheduled consecutively or merged once the abstract submission phase is completed.

Select your preferred presentation mode
Please visit the session format page to get a detailed view on the presentation timings
The final decision on oral/poster is made by the (Co-)Conveners and will be communicated via your My#IMC dashboard

Please add here your abstract meeting the following requirements:
NO REFERNCES/KEYWORDS/ACKNOWEDGEMENTS IN AN ABSTRACT!
Limits: min 100 words, max 350 words or 2500 characters incl. tabs
Criteria: use only UTF-8 HTML character set, no equations/special characters/coding
Copy/Paste from an external editor is possible but check/reformat your text before submitting (e.g. bullet points, returns, aso)

Add here affiliations (max. 50) for you and your co-author(s). Use the row number to assign the affiliation to you and your co-author(s).
When you hover over the row number you are able to change the order of the affiliation list.

1
1

Add here co-author(s) (max. 50) to your abstract. Please assign the affiliation(s) of each co-author in the "Assigned Aff. No" by using the corresponding numbers from the "Affiliation List" (e.g.: 1,2,...)
When you hover over the row number you are able to change the order of the co-author list.

1
2
1

Each tag/name can exist of max. 3 single words

1
2
3
4
1
Close