Landuse change analysis of Tama river basin with different spatial resolution sensor data by Landsat/MSS and TM Original Research Article

A lot of engineering problems which cannot be solved occur if the change process of the land use in the object basin is not understood over a long term when the land use in river basin is planned and social base is maintained. It is necessary to use the images observed with Landsat MSS and TM sensor for the time series to investigate the land use over a long term from the first half of 1970ʹs. In this study, the classification method for the area of mixed land cover influenced easily by the difference of the TM and MSS was examined. It was verified how there was the classification difference between TM and MSS in the whole of actual basin. The investigation possibility for a long term of the land use change in river basin was verified by using both TM and MSS. In addition, the land use change in the Tama basin was able to be shown for the past 25 years.