Observing land-use/land-cover dynamics in semi-arid environment: Evidence from Damaturu Town and its surrounding lands, Yobe State, Nigeria
Article Sidebar
Published:
Jul 27, 2020
Keywords:
Damaturu, Land Use/Land Cover Change (LULCC), Remote Sensing, Multispectral, Landsat imageries
Main Article Content
Abstract
The fragile Sudano-Sahelian ecological zone of Nigeria has been classified as a hotspot of land cover change (LCC) that has been suffering from serious anthropogenic and biophysical stresses. Damaturu, being the fastest growing town situated in the region happened to be a victim of this negative development. The purpose of this study is to remotely observe and assess the prevailing land-use/land-cover (LULC) dynamics of Damaturu town and its delicate surrounding lands from the year 1987-2017 study periods. To achieve this, a supervised image classification technique with Maximum Likelihood Classifier (MLC) algorithm was used in ERDAS Imagine version 15 software to classify the three epochs multi-temporal and multi-spectral Landsat imageries (TM 1987, ETM+7 2000 and OLI 2017). The classified LULC maps and their resulting statistics were then used to assess the spatio-temporal aspects of the observed changes by placing the results within the wider context of previous related literature and evidences. Findings revealed that the built-up area has been expanding since 1987 with an annual change rate of 4.5% between 1987-2000, and 5.3% during 2000-2017 respectively. The growth of the town is being accompanied by massive farmlands expansion and vegetal cover (trees and shrubs) lost making the surrounding arable lands seriously disturbed. Thus, if the observed trends continue, the entire studied region will be subjected to severe environmental hazard such as desertification. Overall, the study provides valuable information required for sustainable environmental management.
Article Details
How to Cite
Babagana-Kyari, M., & Boso, B. (2020). Observing land-use/land-cover dynamics in semi-arid environment: Evidence from Damaturu Town and its surrounding lands, Yobe State, Nigeria. Sustinere: Journal of Environment and Sustainability, 4(2), 55–78. https://doi.org/10.22515/sustinere.jes.v4i2.98
Section
Articles
References
Abbas, I. I. (2012). An assessment of land use/land cover changes in a section of Niger Delta, Nigeria. Frontiers in Science, 2(6), 137–143.
Adams, W. M., & Mortimore, M. J. (1997). Agricultural intensification and flexibility in the Nigerian Sahel. The Geographical Journal, 163(2), 150–160.
Ademiluyi, I. A., Okude, A. S., & Akanni, C. O. (2008). An appraisal of landuse and landcover mapping in Nigeria. African Journal of Agricultural Research, 3(9), 581–586.
Aduwo, B. E., Edewor, P., & Ibem, E. O. (2016). Urbanization and Housing for low-income earners in Nigeria: a review of features, challenges and prospects. Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences, 7(3SI), 347–357.
Ahmed, K. F., Wang, G., You, L., & Yu, M. (2015). Potential impact of climate and socioeconomic changes on future agricultural land use in West Africa. Earth System Dynamic Discussion, 7, 151–165.
Akinsola, O. D., & Oladele, O. I. (2004). National agricultural land development authority’s (NALDA) intervention programme, in Nigerian agriculture: Lessons and Challenges. Journal of Food Agriculture and Environment, 2, 249–254.
Alrababah, M. A., & Alhamad, M. N. (2006). Land use/cover classification of arid and semiâ€arid Mediterranean landscapes using Landsat ETM. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 27(13), 2703–2718.
Babagana-Kyari, M., & Maina-Bukar, Y. (2018). Detecting tree cover loss in Damaturu town using multi-temporal Landsat imagery. International Journal of Advance Research, Ideas and Innovations in Technology, 4(5), 279–286.
Behnia, P. (2005). Comparison between four methods for data fusion of ETM+ multispectral and pan images. Geo-Spatial Information Science, 8(2), 98–103.
Bloch, R., Monroy, J., Fox, S., & Ojo, A. (2014). Urbanisation and urban expansion in Nigeria. London.
Braimoh, A. K., & Onishi, T. (2007). Spatial determinants of urban land use change in Lagos, Nigeria. Land use policy. Land Use Policy, 24(2), 502–515.
Cohen, B. (2006). Urbanization in developing countries: Current trends, future projections, and key challenges for sustainability. Technology in Society, 28(1–2), 63–80.
Defourny, P., & Bontemps, S. (2012). Revisiting Land-Cover Mapping Concepts. In C. P. Giri (Ed.), Remote Sensing of Land Use and Land Cover : Principles and Applications (pp. 49–63). CRC Press.
Dudal, R. (1982). Land degradation in a world dersucctive. Journal of Soil and Water Conservation, 37(5), 245–249.
Duraiappah, A. K. (1998). Poverty and environmental degradation: a review and analysis of the nexus. World Development, 26(12), 2169–2179.
Ejaro, S. P., & Abdullahi, U. (2013). Spatiotemporal analyses of land use and land cover changes in Suleja local government area, Niger State, Nigeria. Journal of Environment and Earth Science, 3(9), 72–83.
El-Nafaty, J. M. (2015). Geology and petrography of the rocks around Gulani area, Northeastern Nigeria. Journal of Geology and Mining Research, 7(5), 41–57.
Elmore, A. J., Mustard, J. F., Manning, S. J., & Lobell, D. B. (2000). Quantifying vegetation change in semiarid environments: precision and accuracy of spectral mixture analysis and the normalized difference vegetation index. Remote Sensing of Environment, 73(1), 87–102.
Emrahoğlu, N., Yeğingil, İ., Peştemalci, V., Şenkal, O., & Kandirmaz, H. M. (2003). Comparison of a new algorithm with the supervised classifications. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 24(4), 649–655.
Fichera, C. R., Modica, G., & Pollino, M. (2012). Land cover classification and change-detection analysis using multi-temporal remote sensed imagery and landscape metrics. European Journal of Remote Sensing, 45(1), 1–18.
Garba, S., & Brewer, T. (2013). Assessment of land cover change in the North Eastern Nigeria 1986 to 2005. Journal of Geography and Geology, 5(4), 94–105.
Geist, H. J., & Lambin, E. F. (2002). Proximate causes and underlying driving forces of tropical deforestation tropical forests are disappearing as the result of many pressures, both local and regional, acting in various combinations in different geographical locations. BioScience, 52(2), 143–150.
Herold, M., Latham, J. S., Di Gregorio, A., & Schmullius, C. C. (2006). Evolving standards in land cover characterization. Journal of Land Use Science, 1(2–4), 157–168.
Hess, T. M., Stephens, W., & Maryah, U. M. (1995). Rainfall trends in the north east arid zone of Nigeria 1961–1990. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 74(1–2), 87–97.
Ishaya, S., Ifatimehin, O. O., & Okafor, C. (2008). Remote sensing and GIS applications in urban expansion and loss of vegetation cover in Kaduna town, northern Nigeria. American-Eurasian Journal of Sustainable Agriculture, 2(2), 117–124.
Jajere, A. A., Isma’il, M., & Musa, I. J. (2015). Analysis of landuse/landcover change in Damaturu Town of Yobe State, Nigeria. Advances in Research, 3(1). Advances in Research, 3(1), 7–19.
Lambin, E. F., Turner, B. L., Geist, H. J., Agbola, S. B., Angelsen, A., Bruce, J. W., … Xu, J. (2001). The causes of land-use and land-cover change: moving beyond the myths. AGlobal Environmental Change, 11(4), 261–269.
Lillesand, T., Kiefer, R. W., & Chipman, J. (2004). Remote Sensing and Image Interpretation (5th Editio). New York: John Wiley & Sons.
Lynch, K., Binns, T., & Olofin, E. (2001). Urban agriculture under threat: The land security question in Kano, Nigeria. Cities, 18(3), 159–171.
Macaulay, B. M. (2014). Land degradation in Northern Nigeria: The impacts and implications of human-related and climatic factors. African Journal of Environmental Science and Technology, 8(5), 267–273.
Macleod, R. D., & Congalton, R. G. (1998). A quantitative comparison of change-detection algorithms for monitoring eelgrass from remotely sensed data. Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing, 64(3), 207–216.
Madu, I. A. (2012). Spatial impacts of rural population pressure on agricultural land use in Nigeria. Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy, 5(2), 123–135.
Maktav, D., Erbek, F. S., & Jürgens, C. (2005). Remote sensing of urban areas. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 26(4), 655–659.
Meyer, W. B., & Turner, B. L. (1992). Human population growth and global land-use/cover change. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics, 23(1), 39–61.
Mundia, C. N., & Aniya, M. (2005). Analysis of land use/cover changes and urban expansion of Nairobi city using remote sensing and GIS. International Journal of Remote Sensingg, 26(13), 2831–2849.
Naibbi, A., Baily, B., Healey, R., & Collier, P. (2014). Changing vegetation patterns in Yobe State Nigeria: an analysis of the rates of change, potential causes and the implications for sustainable resource management. International Journal of Geosciences, 5(1), 50–62.
Odihi, J. (2003). Deforestation in afforestation priority zone in Sudano-Sahelian Nigeria. Applied Geography, 23(4), 227–259.
Ogu, V. I., & Ogbuozobe, J. E. (2001). Housing policy in Nigeria: Towards enablement of private housing development. Habitat International, 25(4), 473–492.
Ojima, D. S., Galvin, K. A., & Turner, B. L. (1994). The global impact of land-use change. BioScience, 44(5), 300–304.
Olujimi, J. (2009). Evolving a planning strategy for managing urban sprawl in Nigeria. Journal of Human Ecology, 25(3), 201–208.
Omojola, A. (1997). Land Use and Land Cover Inventory and Change Assessment in a Semi-Arid Region of Nigeria Using Remote Sensing and GIS Techniques. University of Lagos.
Opeyemi, Z. A. (2008). Monitoring the growth of settlements in Ilorin, Nigeria (a GIS and remote sensing approach). The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, XXXVI(B6b), 225–232.
Owoeye, J. O., & Ibitoye, O. A. (2016). Analysis of Akure urban land use change detection from remote imagery perspective. Urban Studies Research.
Rawat, J. S., & Kumar, M. (2015). Monitoring land use/cover change using remote sensing and GIS techniques: A case study of Hawalbagh block, District Almora, Uttarakhand, India. The Egyptian Journal of Remote Sensing and Space Science, 18(1), 77–84.
Serra, P., Pons, X., & SaurÃ, D. (2008). Land-cover and land-use change in a Mediterranean landscape: a spatial analysis of driving forces integrating biophysical and human factors. Applied Geography, 28(3), 189–209.
Seto, K. C., & Kaufmann, R. K. (2003). Modeling the drivers of urban land use change in the Pearl River Delta, China: Integrating remote sensing with socioeconomic data. Land Economics, 79(1), 106–121.
Shalaby, A., & Tateishi, R. (2007). Remote sensing and GIS for mapping and monitoring land cover and land-use changes in the Northwestern coastal zone of Egypt. Applied Geography, 27(1), 28–41.
Stefanov, W. L., Ramsey, M. S., & Christensen, P. R. (2001). Monitoring urban land cover change: An expert system approach to land cover classification of semiarid to arid urban centers. Remote Sensing of Environment, 77(2), 173–185.
Taylor, R. . (1988). Taylor, R. W. (1988). Urban development policies in Nigeria: planning, housing, and land policy. Center for Economic Research on Africa, Department of Economics, School of Business Administration, Montclair State College.
Weber, C., & Puissant, A. (2003). Urbanization pressure and modeling of urban growth: example of the Tunis Metropolitan Area. Remote Sensing of Environment, 86(3), 341–352.
Zhou, Q., Li, B., & Kurban, A. (2008). Trajectory analysis of land cover change in arid environment of China. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 29(4), 1093–1107.
Adams, W. M., & Mortimore, M. J. (1997). Agricultural intensification and flexibility in the Nigerian Sahel. The Geographical Journal, 163(2), 150–160.
Ademiluyi, I. A., Okude, A. S., & Akanni, C. O. (2008). An appraisal of landuse and landcover mapping in Nigeria. African Journal of Agricultural Research, 3(9), 581–586.
Aduwo, B. E., Edewor, P., & Ibem, E. O. (2016). Urbanization and Housing for low-income earners in Nigeria: a review of features, challenges and prospects. Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences, 7(3SI), 347–357.
Ahmed, K. F., Wang, G., You, L., & Yu, M. (2015). Potential impact of climate and socioeconomic changes on future agricultural land use in West Africa. Earth System Dynamic Discussion, 7, 151–165.
Akinsola, O. D., & Oladele, O. I. (2004). National agricultural land development authority’s (NALDA) intervention programme, in Nigerian agriculture: Lessons and Challenges. Journal of Food Agriculture and Environment, 2, 249–254.
Alrababah, M. A., & Alhamad, M. N. (2006). Land use/cover classification of arid and semiâ€arid Mediterranean landscapes using Landsat ETM. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 27(13), 2703–2718.
Babagana-Kyari, M., & Maina-Bukar, Y. (2018). Detecting tree cover loss in Damaturu town using multi-temporal Landsat imagery. International Journal of Advance Research, Ideas and Innovations in Technology, 4(5), 279–286.
Behnia, P. (2005). Comparison between four methods for data fusion of ETM+ multispectral and pan images. Geo-Spatial Information Science, 8(2), 98–103.
Bloch, R., Monroy, J., Fox, S., & Ojo, A. (2014). Urbanisation and urban expansion in Nigeria. London.
Braimoh, A. K., & Onishi, T. (2007). Spatial determinants of urban land use change in Lagos, Nigeria. Land use policy. Land Use Policy, 24(2), 502–515.
Cohen, B. (2006). Urbanization in developing countries: Current trends, future projections, and key challenges for sustainability. Technology in Society, 28(1–2), 63–80.
Defourny, P., & Bontemps, S. (2012). Revisiting Land-Cover Mapping Concepts. In C. P. Giri (Ed.), Remote Sensing of Land Use and Land Cover : Principles and Applications (pp. 49–63). CRC Press.
Dudal, R. (1982). Land degradation in a world dersucctive. Journal of Soil and Water Conservation, 37(5), 245–249.
Duraiappah, A. K. (1998). Poverty and environmental degradation: a review and analysis of the nexus. World Development, 26(12), 2169–2179.
Ejaro, S. P., & Abdullahi, U. (2013). Spatiotemporal analyses of land use and land cover changes in Suleja local government area, Niger State, Nigeria. Journal of Environment and Earth Science, 3(9), 72–83.
El-Nafaty, J. M. (2015). Geology and petrography of the rocks around Gulani area, Northeastern Nigeria. Journal of Geology and Mining Research, 7(5), 41–57.
Elmore, A. J., Mustard, J. F., Manning, S. J., & Lobell, D. B. (2000). Quantifying vegetation change in semiarid environments: precision and accuracy of spectral mixture analysis and the normalized difference vegetation index. Remote Sensing of Environment, 73(1), 87–102.
Emrahoğlu, N., Yeğingil, İ., Peştemalci, V., Şenkal, O., & Kandirmaz, H. M. (2003). Comparison of a new algorithm with the supervised classifications. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 24(4), 649–655.
Fichera, C. R., Modica, G., & Pollino, M. (2012). Land cover classification and change-detection analysis using multi-temporal remote sensed imagery and landscape metrics. European Journal of Remote Sensing, 45(1), 1–18.
Garba, S., & Brewer, T. (2013). Assessment of land cover change in the North Eastern Nigeria 1986 to 2005. Journal of Geography and Geology, 5(4), 94–105.
Geist, H. J., & Lambin, E. F. (2002). Proximate causes and underlying driving forces of tropical deforestation tropical forests are disappearing as the result of many pressures, both local and regional, acting in various combinations in different geographical locations. BioScience, 52(2), 143–150.
Herold, M., Latham, J. S., Di Gregorio, A., & Schmullius, C. C. (2006). Evolving standards in land cover characterization. Journal of Land Use Science, 1(2–4), 157–168.
Hess, T. M., Stephens, W., & Maryah, U. M. (1995). Rainfall trends in the north east arid zone of Nigeria 1961–1990. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 74(1–2), 87–97.
Ishaya, S., Ifatimehin, O. O., & Okafor, C. (2008). Remote sensing and GIS applications in urban expansion and loss of vegetation cover in Kaduna town, northern Nigeria. American-Eurasian Journal of Sustainable Agriculture, 2(2), 117–124.
Jajere, A. A., Isma’il, M., & Musa, I. J. (2015). Analysis of landuse/landcover change in Damaturu Town of Yobe State, Nigeria. Advances in Research, 3(1). Advances in Research, 3(1), 7–19.
Lambin, E. F., Turner, B. L., Geist, H. J., Agbola, S. B., Angelsen, A., Bruce, J. W., … Xu, J. (2001). The causes of land-use and land-cover change: moving beyond the myths. AGlobal Environmental Change, 11(4), 261–269.
Lillesand, T., Kiefer, R. W., & Chipman, J. (2004). Remote Sensing and Image Interpretation (5th Editio). New York: John Wiley & Sons.
Lynch, K., Binns, T., & Olofin, E. (2001). Urban agriculture under threat: The land security question in Kano, Nigeria. Cities, 18(3), 159–171.
Macaulay, B. M. (2014). Land degradation in Northern Nigeria: The impacts and implications of human-related and climatic factors. African Journal of Environmental Science and Technology, 8(5), 267–273.
Macleod, R. D., & Congalton, R. G. (1998). A quantitative comparison of change-detection algorithms for monitoring eelgrass from remotely sensed data. Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing, 64(3), 207–216.
Madu, I. A. (2012). Spatial impacts of rural population pressure on agricultural land use in Nigeria. Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy, 5(2), 123–135.
Maktav, D., Erbek, F. S., & Jürgens, C. (2005). Remote sensing of urban areas. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 26(4), 655–659.
Meyer, W. B., & Turner, B. L. (1992). Human population growth and global land-use/cover change. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics, 23(1), 39–61.
Mundia, C. N., & Aniya, M. (2005). Analysis of land use/cover changes and urban expansion of Nairobi city using remote sensing and GIS. International Journal of Remote Sensingg, 26(13), 2831–2849.
Naibbi, A., Baily, B., Healey, R., & Collier, P. (2014). Changing vegetation patterns in Yobe State Nigeria: an analysis of the rates of change, potential causes and the implications for sustainable resource management. International Journal of Geosciences, 5(1), 50–62.
Odihi, J. (2003). Deforestation in afforestation priority zone in Sudano-Sahelian Nigeria. Applied Geography, 23(4), 227–259.
Ogu, V. I., & Ogbuozobe, J. E. (2001). Housing policy in Nigeria: Towards enablement of private housing development. Habitat International, 25(4), 473–492.
Ojima, D. S., Galvin, K. A., & Turner, B. L. (1994). The global impact of land-use change. BioScience, 44(5), 300–304.
Olujimi, J. (2009). Evolving a planning strategy for managing urban sprawl in Nigeria. Journal of Human Ecology, 25(3), 201–208.
Omojola, A. (1997). Land Use and Land Cover Inventory and Change Assessment in a Semi-Arid Region of Nigeria Using Remote Sensing and GIS Techniques. University of Lagos.
Opeyemi, Z. A. (2008). Monitoring the growth of settlements in Ilorin, Nigeria (a GIS and remote sensing approach). The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, XXXVI(B6b), 225–232.
Owoeye, J. O., & Ibitoye, O. A. (2016). Analysis of Akure urban land use change detection from remote imagery perspective. Urban Studies Research.
Rawat, J. S., & Kumar, M. (2015). Monitoring land use/cover change using remote sensing and GIS techniques: A case study of Hawalbagh block, District Almora, Uttarakhand, India. The Egyptian Journal of Remote Sensing and Space Science, 18(1), 77–84.
Serra, P., Pons, X., & SaurÃ, D. (2008). Land-cover and land-use change in a Mediterranean landscape: a spatial analysis of driving forces integrating biophysical and human factors. Applied Geography, 28(3), 189–209.
Seto, K. C., & Kaufmann, R. K. (2003). Modeling the drivers of urban land use change in the Pearl River Delta, China: Integrating remote sensing with socioeconomic data. Land Economics, 79(1), 106–121.
Shalaby, A., & Tateishi, R. (2007). Remote sensing and GIS for mapping and monitoring land cover and land-use changes in the Northwestern coastal zone of Egypt. Applied Geography, 27(1), 28–41.
Stefanov, W. L., Ramsey, M. S., & Christensen, P. R. (2001). Monitoring urban land cover change: An expert system approach to land cover classification of semiarid to arid urban centers. Remote Sensing of Environment, 77(2), 173–185.
Taylor, R. . (1988). Taylor, R. W. (1988). Urban development policies in Nigeria: planning, housing, and land policy. Center for Economic Research on Africa, Department of Economics, School of Business Administration, Montclair State College.
Weber, C., & Puissant, A. (2003). Urbanization pressure and modeling of urban growth: example of the Tunis Metropolitan Area. Remote Sensing of Environment, 86(3), 341–352.
Zhou, Q., Li, B., & Kurban, A. (2008). Trajectory analysis of land cover change in arid environment of China. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 29(4), 1093–1107.