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Abstract
Mapping land use/land cover changes at regional scales is essential for a wide range of applications like landslide, erosion, land planning, global warming etc. LU/LC alterations based especially on anthropogenic activities, negatively affect the patterns of climate, the patterns of natural hazard and socio-economic dynamics in global and local scale. Monitoring and analyzing the recent land cover/land use changes through the integration of remote sensing and GIS to detect change in land use and land cover pattern by providing more reliable direct quantitative information could also provide base information for documenting water salinity, soil change and expansion in surface lakes. Therefore, the present study is made to detect the land use/ land cover change between 2013 and 2017 for the Vemulawada mandal of Rajanna Sircilla District, Telangana using geo-spatial technologies. LISS-IV, IRS-2A data for the year 20013 and - 2017 have been used for extraction of thematic information on the land use/ land cover change detection analysis.