Abstract:
Bangladesh is one of the biggest deltas of the world standing on the
“Tropic of Cancer”. Various rivers such as the Padma, the Meghna, the
Jamuna flow over this country. The north western part of Bangladesh is of
distinctive characteristic which is known to be the Barind tract. Though this
region is under developed and neglected, it plays an important role for our
economic development.
Land is the important natural resource. Land is used in various
purposes. This land is being changed every day due to the increase of
population. In case of taking the future development plan of any region, it is
essential for anyone to have a better concept about land use change so as an
under developed and inadvanced region, the Barind region displays the
proper landuse change in this dissertation. So it becomes possible to accept
more development plan in future. As the study area, four thanas of the
Barind up land region have been accepted.
The remotely sensed information has been used in this research in
determining land use. In conventional system, the determination of land use
is as expensive as tardy. Again accuracy is doubtful. It is possible to evaluate
landuse change easily and within a short time by remotely sensed
information due to repetition.
Land use identification and change have been displayed in 1997 and
2006 by Landsat TM satellite image collected from “SPARRSO”,
Bangladesh Space Research Organization. During this period the growth of
settlement and forest of the study area is manifested as 6.15% and 48.17%
respectively.
The real development of the Barind region will happen by taking the
proper future development plan evaluating land use change and contribute to
the economy of the country which is essential for the country.
Description:
This thesis is submitted to the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, University of Rajshahi, Rajshahi Bangladesh for the Degree of Master of Philosophy (MPhil)
