Application of RS and GIS in Landuse and Landcover Mapping in Solapur City

Landuse and Landcover is result of natural and manmade features covered on the Earth surface. There were some fundamental differences between Land use and land cover Land use refers to the purpose the land serves (recreation wildlife habitat or agriculture) which does not describe the surface cover on the ground ie a recreational land use could occur in a forest, scrubland grasslands or on manicured lawns And other hand Land cover commonly defined as the vegetation (natural/planted) or manmade constructions which occur on the Earth surface Landcover refers to the surface cover on the ground whether vegetation, urban infrastructure, water, bare soil or other; it does not describe the use of land, and the use of land may be different for lands with the same cover type. As per getting information through sentile-2 image, in Solapur city highest area covered by agricultural land which is 64 11sq.km and lowest area covered by water bodies (1.12 sq km) Eastern and middle part of Solapur city covered by built up area and south, west and north area by agricultural and waste land.