Abstract
The land coverage changes on the Mizushima and Kojima districts, Okayama Prefecture have been observed by using Landsat TM image data and digital map information to trace the process of industrialization and predict the capability of future development in these districts. The geographical changes in the past some decades have been found by overlaying old maps onto the TM image data. The environmental conditions in these coastal areas were discussed from a point of view of human activities.
The industrialization of the Mizushima district was done from 1960's through 70's but little geographical change has been made in the past near decade. On the other hand, that of the Kojima district have not been made, but the wide-reclaimed salt pans are still left without using as industrial site.
We compared two TM images (1984, 1990) of the Mizushima district with each other by using tasselled cap transformation (TCT) to examine the change of land coverage by time elapssing. It has been found that the Mizushima industrial complex is grown up as a fully developed area.
