ABSTRACT
ABSTRACT: Land use and land cover monitoring and assessment is crucial to proper planning and sustainable development. Periodic information on urban development and land use changes are necessary for peri-urban regions undergoing rapid changes. Detecting changes in land use requires timely and accurate spatial information, which using remotely sensed data and GIS guarantees. The sporadic population growth in the Lagos megacity region coupled with ever increasing the demand for urban land use has undoubtedly exerted pressure on the existing peri-urban landscape and its intrinsic natural resources, which include forest and valuable agricultural lands in Ikorodu, Lagos. Though several studies have been carried out on the use of remote sensing and GIS for urban planning applications, little has been done in monitoring the impact of peri-urban land use change in developing countries. The utilization of multi-temporal Landsat imageries to monitor the dynamics of conversion of forest and agricultural land uses to urban land use between the periods of 1990 to 2011, as well as its implications is the motivation of this research.
