Spatiotemporal LULC Analysis¶

See change, not just snapshots.

Spatiotemporal LULC Analysis is a QGIS plugin that transforms multi-year categorical rasters into comprehensive land use/land cover change reports. Generate transition matrices, hotspot maps, change intensities, and interactive charts in a single run.

Easy Installation

Install directly from QGIS Plugin Manager or download from GitHub

Installation
Quick Start

Get up and running with your first analysis in minutes

Quick Start
Comprehensive Outputs

CSV tables, GeoTIFF rasters, and interactive HTML charts

Outputs
Transparent Methods

Fully documented formulas and methodology

Methodology

Key Features¶

Analysis Outputs¶

Area by class - Per-class pixel counts and area across each input raster
Net/Gross change - Gain and loss per class for each time interval
Transition matrices - Full from-to matrices for each interval and first-to-last year
Top transitions - Ranked list of the largest class-to-class conversions
Change intensity - Interval and annualized change rates
Change frequency raster - Count of transitions per pixel across all years
Change hotspots - Kernel density heatmaps highlighting concentrated change

Output Formats¶

Format	Outputs
CSV	Area tables, transition matrices, top transitions, intensity metrics
GeoTIFF	Change frequency raster, hotspot heatmaps
HTML	Interactive Plotly.js charts, Sankey diagrams