ABSTRACT

This project examines the use of GIS and Remote Sensing in mapping Land Use Land Cover in Ilorin between 1972 and 2001 so as to detect the changes that has taken place in this status between these periods. Subsequently, an attempt was made at projecting the observed land use land cover in the next 14 years. In achieving this, Land Consumption Rate and Land Absorption Coefficient were introduced to aid in the quantitative assessment of the change. The result of the work shows a rapid growth in built-up land between 1972 and 1986 while the periods between 1986 and 2001 witnessed a reduction in this class. It was also observed that change by 2015 may likely follow the trend in 1986/2001.

Suggestions were therefore made at the end of the work on ways to use the information as contained therein optimally.

TABLE OF CONTENTS                                                                                   

Title page

Certification

Dedication

Acknowledgments

Table of contents

List of tables

CHAPTER ONE:   INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER TWO:   LITERATURE REVIEW

CHAPTER THREE: RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

3.3        Software used

3.4        Development of a Classification Scheme

3.5        Limitation (s) in the study

3.6        Methods of Data Analysis

CHAPTER FOUR

4.1        Land Use Land Cover Distribution

4.2        Land Consumption Rate and Land Absorption Coefficient

4.3        Land Use Land Cover Change: Trend, Rate, Magnitude

4.4        Nature and location of change in Land Use Land Cover

4.5        Transition Probability Matrix

4.6        Land Use Land Cover Projection for 2015

CHAPTER FIVE

REFERENCES

LIST OF TABLES

TABLE                                                                                                                   

3.1  Data Source

3.2  Land Use Land Cover Classification Scheme                           

4.1  Land Use Land Cover Distribution in 1972, 1986, 2001

4.2.1  Land Consumption Rate and Absorption Coefficient

4.2.2  Population figure of Ilorin in 1977, 1984 and 2001

4.3   Land Use Land Cover Change of Ilorin and its Environs (1972, 1986 and 2001)

4.5  Transition Probability table

4.6  Projected Land Use Land Cover for 2015

LIST OF MAPS

MAPS                                                                                                                

I  1972 Land Use Land Cover map of Ilorin

II  1986 Land Use Land Cover map of Ilorin

III 2001 Land Use Land Cover map of Ilorin

V 1972/86 Overlay of Built-up Land

VI 86/2001 Overlay of Built-up Land

IV  2015 Land Use Land Cover map of Ilorin

VII 2001/15 Overlay of Built-up Land

LIST OF FIGURES

FIGURES                                                                                                           

I   1972 Land Use Land Cover Categories of Ilorin                         

II   1986 Land Use Land Cover Categories of Ilorin                           

III   2001 Land Use Land Cover Categories of Ilorin                          

IV  2015 Land Use Land Cover Categories of Ilorin