Md Arafat Hassan^1*, Suriya Jesmine Ratna¹, Masud Hassan², Sonia Tamanna³

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¹ Department of Geography and Environment, University of Dhaka, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
² Department of Soil, Water, and Environment, University of Dhaka, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
³ Chittagong University of Engineering and Technology, Chittagong, Bangladesh.
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Abstract: Jamuna River is one of the principal rivers of Bangladesh, changing continuously due to erosion and accretion over the past decades. This analysis evaluates the East Bank and the West Bank erosion and accretion between 1996 and 2015 for Jamuna River. An unsupervised classification algorithm and post-classification change employing skills in Geographic Information System are performed to evaluate spatial and temporal dynamics of erosion and accretion for different points of Jamuna River using Bangladesh. Landsat image (1995, 2005, 2015). The correctness of the Landsat-produced map ranges from 82% to 84%. It has been evidently observed that changes in the proportion of erosion and accretion differ in different points of Jamuna River. The highest eroded area is 3.82 square kilometers (km²) during the period of 1995 to 2005 and the highest accreted area is 6.15 square kilometers (km²) during the period of 1995 to 2015. The erosion and accretion values fluctuated from place to place. The changing trend of Riverbank is creating many socio-economic problems in the proximate areas.

Keywords: Remote Sensing, GIS, River Erosion, Accretion, Change Analysis, Jamuna River

Cite this paper: Hassan, M. , Ratna, S. , Hassan, M. and Tamanna, S. (2017) Remote Sensing and GIS for the Spatio-Temporal Change Analysis of the East and the West River Bank Erosion and Accretion of Jamuna River (1995-2015), Bangladesh. Journal of Geoscience and Environment Protection, 5, 79-92. doi: 10.4236/gep.2017.59006.

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