Ever increasing populations have led to increased demand for urban land and thus high rate of urbanization is
observed in the last decade. This comes at the cost of environmental degradation in terms of reducing green cover in Indian
cities. The paper deals with spatial land cover analysis of Nainital and Noida, growing regions in close proximity to the capital of
India, Delhi, through the technique of Normalized Difference Vegetative Index (NDVI), comparing the data for 2000 and 2016.
The factors accounting for land cover change in these two metropolitan cities, in the past few years, are also discussed in the
paper.
