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Abstract
Land use and land cover have a direct relationship with natural qualities and procedures, including the profitability of the land, species decent variety, atmosphere, biogeochemistry and the hydrologic cycle. GIS and Remote Sensing are bit by bit turning into an incorporated innovation that is as a rule generally utilized in different applications. These two innovations are integral, as they are basically variations of the digital spatial data. They have turned out to be inseparably connected in numerous application fields. The display techniques systems for GIS and Remote Sensing data has significantly progressed within the previous two decades. Technological advances in image processing and visualization techniques have created show and interpretation mechanisms for the investigation allforms and sources of geological data. In the present examination, the land use and land cover mapping of Vemulawada mandal,in the district of Rajanna Sircilla, Telangana State has been carried out on IRS-P6, LISS-IV satellite image, on standard visual interpretation techniques. The identified land use / land cover features are deciduous forest, single and double crop, fallow land, gullied land, marine sand dunes, non-perennial tank, perennial tank, plantation, reservoir, main river courses, rural and urban built-up land, scrub forest and un-irrigated land. Maximum area is covered by Kharif (56.94%) followed by double-cropped (22.20%), Wastelands, Land-with-scrub (5.03%) and Deciduous Open Forest (4.71%). The other land use and land cover classes individually cover less than 10% of the Total Geographical Area (TGA).