Land use/cover change detection and analysis
For performing LULC change detection, post-classification change
detection technique, performed in the ArcGIS 10.5 was used in the study.
Various researchers have used post classification for the urban land
cover change detection and analysis (Hardin et al., 2007). In this
study, to measure the quantity of conversion from a particular land
cover to other land cover category and their corresponding area over the
evaluated period, cross tabulation analysis on a pixcelby-pixel basis
was conducted. Thus, the data of the overall LULC change as well as
gains and losees in each class between 1979 and 2019 were then compiled.