CONCLUSION

Large LULC changes involve conversion of irrigable lands into built up area, some of the open lands and scrub lands are converted to Agricultural Fields. A wide range of small scale irrigation projects (water bodies) have come up in the region increasing the water storage capacity in the region. The Land Use analysis was done by supervised classification using the Gaussian MLC algorithm. The temporal change in land use and land cover has been observed. The Land cover results show an increase in vegetation cover in the region from 95.6% in 1989 to 93.57% in 2009. The temporal analysis of the Land use show an increase in Built up area from 1.45% in 1989 to 5.80% in 2009, the vegetation has declined from 3.9 % in 1989 to 1.1% in 2009. Shannon’s entropy has increased 0.182 in 1998 to 0.273 in 2009, shows the tendency of urban sprawl in the region.