Object Oriented Post-Classification Land Use/ Cover Change Detection on the Mehr Pardis Housing Construction Area

The increasing population of the large cities has led to developing new constructions in areas around cities to create settlements for the overflow of the population. In this paper, the impact of Mehr Pardis housing construction is investigated on the land use/cover changes. For this reason, Landsat satellite images have been used in 17 years’ time interval, between 2002 and 2019. After performing initial image processing and image segmentation, the three object classes of residential buildings, vegetation, and soil were identified by the object based image analysis procedure. Then, post-classification change detection performed on the generated object based classification maps of both 2002 and 2019 epochs. The obtained results of this study represent a 184% increase in the number of buildings and structures constructed in this urban area.