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Remote Sensing of Agriculture and Land Cover/Land Use Changes in South and Southeast Asian Countries pp 455–469Cite as

Nexus of Urbanization and Changes in Agricultural Land in Bangladesh

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Agriculture is the backbone of the economy of many countries; however, loss of agricultural land has become widespread due to urbanization-induced land use/cover change (LU/CC) worldwide. Understanding the spatial distribution of agricultural land and its changes is important for policy development. This study is aimed at investigating the spatiotemporal changes in agricultural lands and evaluating their relationship with urbanization. Landsat and Nightime Light (NTL) satellite images were utilized. The Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Modified Normalized Difference Water Index (MNDWI), and Normalized Difference Built-up Index (NDBI) were used to classify agricultural land cover types using the Decision Tree (DT) algorithm. The digital number (DN) of the NTL images was used to segregate urban and rural areas. Moreover, the lighting pixels were used to classify districts into four categories, e.g., high, moderate, low, and very low urbanized areas. Subsequently, we computed basic statistics of the changes in agricultural lands and enumerated yearly loss or gain during 26 years, 1992–2018. This study indicated that Bangladesh experienced a significant loss in agricultural lands; however, the loss rates varied. A high rate of change was observed in rural areas compared to urban areas. The results also showed a strong coefficient of determination (R2 = 0.59) between changes in agricultural land and lighting areas in urban areas of Bangladesh.

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  • Urbanization
  • Agriculture
  • Remote sensing
  • Urban
  • Rural

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The authors thank the US Geological Survey for global Landsat images and making them publicly available. We also thank the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) for providing NTL images free of cost.

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  1. Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Rajshahi University of Engineering & Technology, Rajshahi, Bangladesh

    Mst. Ilme Faridatul

  2. Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Chittagong University of Engineering and Technology, Chittagong, Bangladesh

    Mohammed Sarfaraz Gani Adnan

  3. School of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Curtin University, Perth, Australia

    Ashraf Dewan

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Faridatul, M.I., Adnan, M.S.G., Dewan, A. (2022). Nexus of Urbanization and Changes in Agricultural Land in Bangladesh. In: Vadrevu, K.P., Le Toan, T., Ray, S.S., Justice, C. (eds) Remote Sensing of Agriculture and Land Cover/Land Use Changes in South and Southeast Asian Countries. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-92365-5_26

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