International Journal of Social Science Research (IJSSR)

Geographical Analysis of Land Use Pattern in Hamirpur District of Uttar Pradesh

Land use involves the management and modification of natural environment or wilderness into built environment such as settlements and semi-natural habitats such as arable fields, pastures, and managed woods. the purposes and activities through which people interact with land and terrestrial ecosystems and as the total of arrangements, activities, and inputs that people undertake in a certain land type. Land use by humans has a long history, first emerging more than 10,000 years ago. Land use is one of the most important drivers of global environmental change. It is very difficult to study land use on primary data. Because these data are close to impurity, hence it is appropriate to study on secondary data which is accurate, that is why Landsat data has been used in this study paper and ArcMap version 10.8 has been used to analyze it. This is the study year. This paper has been done between 2008 and 2022. Based on the LULC data of 2008 and 2022, predictions for 2023 and further years have been made. After this analysis, it has been found that with the increasing population and climate change. There is a change in the land use pattern, and decrease in agricultural land and an increase in the built-up area.