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Impact of Land Use Land Cover Change on Land Surface Temperature of Paschim Bardhaman District, India

Moumita Hati , Yamanur Venkata Krishnaiah * , Debasis Das , Manika Mallick , Vajana Mondal , Kausik Panja , Deepa Rai and Atoshi Chakma

1 Department of Geography and Disaster Management, Tripura University, Suryamaninagar, Tripura India

Corresponding author Email: yvkrishna09@gmail.com

Paschim Bardhaman district is one of the most important urban industrial area and mining in the West Bengal. The Eastern Coalfield Ltd. (ECL) and Bharath Coking Coal Ltd (BCCL) (PPP) are running the mining activity in the study area. Owing these companies and coal mines, people from different parts of the state and other states of India migrate for job purpose and their needs put pressure on infrastructure, it influences the expansion of urban areas in the district. All the factors encourage rapid urbanization, its impact on Land Use Land Cover patterns (LULC) and Land Surface Temperature (LST) of the Paschim Bardhaman district. To know an effectiveness changes of LULC on LST (radiance of thermal bands) worked out in GIS environment with supervised and unsupervised classification using LANDSAT 4 & 5 TM & 8 OLI / TIRS multi-temporal satellite data over four decades that are 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021. Further, proportion of vegetation and built-up areas were assessed through Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) and Normalized Difference Built-up Index (NDBI). The summer temperatures quickly rose in 1991, highest summertime temperature was recorded 38.34°C. It has climbed by 7.57°C by 2021, yet the minimum summer temperature has a lesser influence than the winter temperatures. In winter, the maximum temperature was recorded at 33.15°C in 1991, which climbed by 6.96°C in 2021 and in winter, the minimum temperature also increased by 2.06°C. The average LST of vegetation area improved 26.96°C to 30°C in between 1991-2021. The difference in mean LST has increased from 1991 to 2021 (3.84°C). It was observed that densely populated/ core areas have a significant impact on increasing of LST, particularly where heavily built-up, mines and industries have been established and low surface temperature is noticed around presence of water bodies and dense vegetation areas of the study area. Vegetation area negatively correlates with LST (R2 value = 0.82). Where built-up, mining and industrial areas have a strongly positive correlation with LST (R2 value =0.90). The average surface temperature of the built-up area enhanced from 27.40°C to 31.39°C. Past 40years, mean surface temperature in the mining area great improved by 3.96°C.

Conversion matrix; Land use land cover change; Land surface temperature; Paschim Bardhaman; Remote Sensing

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Hati M, Krishnaiah Y. V, Das D, Mallick M, Mondal V, Panja K, Rai D, Chakma A. Impact of Land Use Land Cover Change on Land Surface Temperature of Paschim Bardhaman District, India. Curr World Environ 2025;20(1).

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Hati M, Krishnaiah Y. V, Das D, Mallick M, Mondal V, Panja K, Rai D, Chakma A. Impact of Land Use Land Cover Change on Land Surface Temperature of Paschim Bardhaman District, India. Curr World Environ 2025;20(1).

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