Published Paper Details:

Wetlands are of great importance to man and nature as they purify water, reduce flood, store water, prevent soil erosion, and support varied biodiversities. This wetland is a freshwater lake and is rich in diversity. Lake Anasagar is a threatened water body of Ajmer city of Rajasthan. The present paper is an attempt to study the impact of human-induced activities on land use land cover change in and around Anasagar wetland. Land use and land cover mapping have been done with the help of satellite imagery for the years 2008 and 2013. The study tries to evaluate the changing pattern of land use land cover by analysing the changing pattern of agriculture development, vegetation cover, swampy land and build-up area. Images were analysed for aggradations changes, meanders and water bodies alterations. Then the images were classified with the supervised classification technique to calculate the area for different land use classes. The result shows, there was an increase in build-up land whereas vegetation cover, shows a decreasing trend in recent years. Reference of topographical sheets has been used to corroborate the findings with ground realities. A reconnaissance survey of the field was carried out for the accuracy assessment and finally the study have been done.