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Land use/land cover changes in the central part of the Chitwan Annapurna Landscape, Nepal

The result's identifiers

  • Result code in IS VaVaI

    <a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F67985939%3A_____%2F22%3A00558387" target="_blank" >RIV/67985939:_____/22:00558387 - isvavai.cz</a>

  • Alternative codes found

    RIV/86652079:_____/22:00558695

  • Result on the web

    <a href="https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13435" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13435</a>

  • DOI - Digital Object Identifier

    <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13435" target="_blank" >10.7717/peerj.13435</a>

Alternative languages

  • Result language

    angličtina

  • Original language name

    Land use/land cover changes in the central part of the Chitwan Annapurna Landscape, Nepal

  • Original language description

    Background: Land use/land cover assessment and monitoring of the land cover dynamics are essential to know the ecological, physical and anthropogenic processes in the landscape. Previous studies have indicated changes in the landscape of mid-hills of Nepal in the past few decades. But there is a lack of study in the Chitwan Annapurna Landscape, hence, this study was carried out to fill in study gap that existed in the area. Methods: This study evaluates land use/land cover dynamics between 2000 to 2020 in the central part of the Chitwan Annapurna Landscape, Nepal by using Landsat images. The Landsat images were classified into eight different classes using remote sensing and geographic information system (GIS). The accuracy assessment of classified images was evaluated by calculating actual accuracy, producer's accuracy, user's accuracy and kappa coefficient based on the ground-truthing points for 2020 and Google Earth and topographic maps for images of 2010 and 2000. Results: The results of land use/land cover analysis of Landsat image 2020 showed that the study area was composed of grassland (1.73%), barren area (1.76%), riverine forest (1.93%), water body (1.97%), developed area (4.13%), Sal dominated forest (15.4%), cropland (28.13%) and mixed forest (44.95%). The results of land cover change between 2000 to 2020 indicated an overall increase in Sal dominated forest (7.6%), developed area (31.34%), mixed forest (37.46%) and decrease in riverine forest (11.29%), barren area (20.03%), croplands (29.87%) and grasslands (49.71%). The classification of the images of 2000, 2010 and 2020 had 81%, 81.6% and 84.77% overall accuracy, respectively. This finding can be used as a baseline information for the development of a proper management plan to protect wildlife habitats and forecasting possible future changes, if needed.

  • Czech name

  • Czech description

Classification

  • Type

    J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

  • CEP classification

  • OECD FORD branch

    10618 - Ecology

Result continuities

  • Project

  • Continuities

    I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Others

  • Publication year

    2022

  • Confidentiality

    S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Data specific for result type

  • Name of the periodical

    PeerJ

  • ISSN

    2167-8359

  • e-ISSN

    2167-8359

  • Volume of the periodical

    10

  • Issue of the periodical within the volume

    May 20

  • Country of publishing house

    US - UNITED STATES

  • Number of pages

    22

  • Pages from-to

    e13435

  • UT code for WoS article

    000805347600003

  • EID of the result in the Scopus database

    2-s2.0-85131164213