Land Use Land Cover Change Detection and Measuring Horticulture Expansion through Remote Sensing and GIS Techniques in Rambiara Catchment, Kashmir Valley, India

Horticulture industry is backbone of the economy Jammu and Kashmir, it has increased spontaneously from a recent couple decades had immensely impacted socio-economic conditions inhabitants Rambiara Catchment. The study aimed to identify varied land use cover categories prevailing over catchment attempted temporal changes. Multispectral images Landsat 7 8 were brought into by making LULC classes through maximum supervised classification for year 1999 2019. Whole area was classified eight major i.e., Horticulture, Settlement, Water, Riverbed, Dense Forests, Sparce Forests Waste Lands. results obtained depicted that there large-scale positive change observed +172.67 percent, Settlement +112.06 percent sparse forest +28.44 percent. horticulture remained highest achiever last 20 years this because high cash value realized fruits, less agricultural production crops other than fruits also due changing climatic.