Using a GIS to Determine how Different Types of Land Cover have Changed over Time in the State of Connecticut

This project focuses on how agricultural land cover has changed over time in comparison to developed and turf/grass land cover areas. This was done for two areas, the State of Connecticut and the area of Hartford County, Connecticut. This project defines specific areas in which agricultural land cover have changed to another type of land cover between the years 1985 and 2006. Changes to developed and turf/grass areas were determined as well, in order to show the amount of changed agricultural areas that became developed areas or turf/grass areas. In addition to spatial analysis methods, several statistical analysis methods were performed on the data. Statistical analysis methods were implemented in order to show the relationships that existed among the developed land cover data and the turf/grass land cover data with respect to the agricultural data.