ABSTRACT
Land utilization results in the modification of the surface of the Earth by anthropogenic activities that have shaped and reshaped the face of the Earth throughout history. Human beings have used the land resource for different purposes over the years from building houses to live in to building roads for the transportation of goods and services, various types of settlements for conducting different administrative and economic activities, and building universities for the dissemination of knowledge and information. These developments have happened mostly because of the transformation of agricultural and forest land into built-up areas. Aligarh city is one of the important historical cities in India and is regarded as an educational town in terms of the functional classification of towns and cities. Due to increasing population and urbanization, Aligarh city has seen a significant change in land use, which has resulted in the creation of an urban heat island (UHI) and changes in land surface temperature (LST). The present study deals with the dynamics of land use and land change cover and their effect on LST by using remote sensing techniques and Geographic Information System (GIS) to analyse the nature of the change in land use in Aligarh city.
