Assessing variations in land cover-land use and surface temperature dynamics for Dehradun, India, using multi-time and multi-sensor landsat data.

Rapid urbanisation and industrialisation coupled with overpopulation have altered land cover/land use (LCLU) and surface temperature (ST) patterns in Dehradun. Monitoring these changes through satellite-based remote sensing is required to ensure the sustained development of this ecologically fragile region. Here, LU and ST dynamics of the Dehradun municipal area have been estimated using Landsat-5 datasets for 1991, 1998, and 2008 and Landsat-8 dataset for 2018.