%0 Journal Article
%T Application of Geographic Information System in Assessing Land use Changes In Kubwa, FCT Abuja
%A NS Daruwana
%J Information Manager (The)
%D 2011
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%X This study looked at the application of geographic information system in assessing land use changes in Kubwa, FCT from 1987-1997. Structured questionnaire was distributed to 300 willing respondents using the systematic sampling technique. Using geographic information system, the changes were also mapped, simple descriptive statistics, Chisquare and T-test were also employed to validate the findings and the result showed that rural/agrarians land use changed dramatically from rural residential area which occupied <l0Ha of the total area coverage (i.e 5.4%) and agric/vacant land use of l5OHa (85%) of land coverage in 1987 to < 45 Ha of land area (56.7%) built mostly for tenants probably for urban dwellers/workers in 1997. The study conclude that the major land use changes found in this study are the commercialization and capitalization of the land within Kubwa which is also a major index that affects the growth and expansion consequently the land use changes in Kubwa area.
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