Akure has since it became the administrative headquarters of Ondo State in 1976 been
witnessing rapid developmental changes in terms of physical landscape, city growth and
urban sprawl. These agents of landuse landcover changes are capable of creating
environmental and climatic problems. In view of this, We fulti temporal remote sensing data
and geographic information system (GIS) techniques with field survey were used to detect
the land use and land cover change in Akure (Lat: 7.25 N; Lon: 5.20 E), a south-western city …