ISSN: 2168-9717

Journal of Architectural Engineering Technology
Open Access

Our Group organises 3000+ Global Conferenceseries Events every year across USA, Europe & Asia with support from 1000 more scientific Societies and Publishes 700+ Open Access Journals which contains over 50000 eminent personalities, reputed scientists as editorial board members.

Open Access Journals gaining more Readers and Citations
700 Journals and 15,000,000 Readers Each Journal is getting 25,000+ Readers

This Readership is 10 times more when compared to other Subscription Journals (Source: Google Analytics)
  • Research Article   
  • J Archit Eng Tech 2017, Vol 6(2): 204
  • DOI: 10.4172/2168-9717.1000204

The Implications of Land Use/Cover Dynamics on Resources Development in Tubah Sub-Division, Cameroon

Balgah Sounders Nguh*
Department of Geography, University of Buea, Cameroon
*Corresponding Author : Balgah Sounders Nguh, Department of Geography, University of Buea, PO Box 62, Cameroon, Tel: 237-699-002-010, Email: juniorsa2002@yahoo.co.uk

Received Date: May 27, 2017 / Accepted Date: Jun 23, 2017 / Published Date: Jun 28, 2017

Abstract

The environment at various scales is greatly modified through the activities of man and his dynamic science and technology. These modifications essentially constitute land use/cover changes. This paper describes the implications of land use dynamics on resource development in Tubah Sub-division over time and space from 1983 to 2013. This research has made use of remote sensing techniques and Geographic Information System (GIS) in describing land use/cover changes in Tubah Sub-division. Primary data was obtained through field observations and ground truthing in order to confirm observations on satellite imageries. Land use maps were produced using some GIS software packages such as Google Earth, ENVI 4.3, Global Mapper 15 and ArcGis 10.2. Maps were generated to show changes in Land use/cover which were transpose into tables and bar graphs to show the magnitude of changes, percentage of change and the rate of change. The analysis of static land use maps of 1983, 2000, and 2013, all pointed to the fact that, there have been significant changes observed on forest cover, farmland, grazing land and settlement land uses

Keywords: Land use/cover; Dynamics; Remote sensing techniques; Geographic information system; Resource implications; Tubah

Citation: Nguh BS, Maluh NB (2017) The Implications of Land Use/Cover Dynamics on Resources Development in Tubah Sub-Division, Cameroon. J Archit Eng Tech 6: 204. Doi: 10.4172/2168-9717.1000204

Copyright: © 2017 Nguh BS, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

Top