Land Use/Cover Change Detection and Urban Sprawl Analysis in Bandar Abbas City, Iran

Table 5

Land use/cover matrix, 1956–2012 (hectares).

	1956
	Urban land	Agricultural land	Marsh land	River	Coastal zone	Military land	Rocky hills	Barren land	Total
2012
Urban land	403.74	155.11	3.05	75.68	162.87	0.62	1782.06	2329.03	4912.17
Agricultural land	0	0	0	30.81	0	0	0	16.64	47.45
Marsh land	0	0	0	12.72	46.89	0	0	0.60	60.21
River	0	0	0	0.17	0.56	47.51	78.72	169.54	296.49
Coastal zone	0	0	0	0.00	0	0	6.92	0	6.92
Military land	0	0	0	3.04	0	0	225.04	34.06	262.14
Rocky hills	0	0.49	0	39.97	0.60	0	4.34	26.56	71.96
Barren land	0	0	1.66	0	0	0	0	6.99	8.65
Total	403.74	155.60	4.71	162.38	210.91	48.13	2097.08	2583.43	5665.99