| Summary: | The development of higher learning institutions for the community surrounding is evident. The positive development can be seen from human activities such as farming, land reclamation and industrialization that influence the developed area in terms of land use and land cover changes. These activities have led to urbanization once the university is established. This study examined how the establishment of Universiti Teknologi MARA Cawangan Kelantan, Malaysia as a higher learning institution has influenced land use and land cover changes in Machang, Kelantan. The developed area changes evolution process of the land use situation from 1999 to 2019 were explored. The study adopted GIS and Remote sensing techniques to acquire, analyse and determined changes in Landsat images for 5- and 10-km radius of the year 1999, 2009 and 2019 after the university was established. The land use and land cover classes being used were forest, paddy, mixed agriculture, water bodies, developed area, bare soil, mangrove and cloud. Supervised classification was used to analyse land-use/cover change date generated from GIS and remote sensing. The study revealed that there is a significant influence on land use and land cover changes as a result of the establishment of the university. This is shown from the Landsat images for the years 1999 and 2019 whereby the developed area appeared greener in 1999 as compared to 2019. The study confirmed that land use and land cover changes in 20 years of the university’s establishment provided significant impacts on the environment. © The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2024.
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