Remote Sensing for Land Use Monitoring in the Suburban Areas of Tashkent, Uzbekistan

Abstract

Tashkent has experienced rapid urban growth over the past three decades, which resulted in vast agricultural and infrastructural changes, both in urban and per urban areas. This study proposes a quantitative method of land use and land cover change studies in one of the biggest cities of Central Asia, Tashkent, and focusing on the changes in urban suburban, agricultural land use and land cover; and its correlation with the population increase, and decreasing agricultural lands. Migration and urbanization led problems related with water and environmental degradation. The remote sensing data processing of Landsat satellite images has been used on the analysis. Suburban lands are main source of agricultural products, classified according to the major land use like urban, agriculture, bare lands and water.