Dynamics of Land Use in the City of Abidjan from 1986 to 2017: Contribution of Remote Sensing and GIS

The city of Abidjan is located in the south-east of Côte d'Ivoire knows a spatio-temporal dynamics of the occupation of its soil. Anthropogenic activities and the increase of the population contribute strongly to this situation. The objective of this study is to follow the evolution of land use in the Abidjan zone from 1986 to 2017. The study was conducted using satellite data and field observations. It is based on the diachronic analysis of Landsat satellite images from 1986, 2000, 2015 and 2017. The different Landsat images were processed by the classification methods supervised using the maximum likelihood algorithm. The thematic maps produced made it possible to highlight the spatio-temporal dynamics of the land use from 1986 to 2017 in the Abidjan area. The results obtained showed a negative overall evolution of the types of occupation of the territory of our study area. Thus, over this period, there is an annual increase of 1.16% of the habitat/bare soil class against a regression of the other units of land occupation. *Corresponding author: Kassi JB, Laboratory of Geosciences Marines, Department of the Earth Sciences and the Mining Resources (URF-STRM), Félix Houphouet-Boigny University of Abidjan, Cocody, Ivory Coast, Tel: +22545430555; E-mail: ahonjb.kassi@curat-edu.org Received May 08, 2018; Accepted June 01, 2018; Published June 05, 2018 Citation: Adon GC, Kassi JB, Yoboue CK (2018) Dynamics of Land Use in the City of Abidjan from 1986 to 2017: Contribution of Remote Sensing and GIS. J Environ Anal Toxicol 8: 573. doi: 10.4172/2161-0525.1000573 Copyright: © 2018 Adon GC, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Citation: Adon GC, Kassi JB, Yoboue CK (2018) Dynamics of Land Use in the City of Abidjan from 1986 to 2017: Contribution of Remote Sensing and GIS. J Environ Anal Toxicol 8: 573. doi: 10.4172/2161-0525.1000573