Bonfring International Journal of Industrial Engineering and Management Science
Online ISSN: 2277-5056 | Print ISSN: 2250-1096 | Frequency: 4 Issues/Year
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Urban Sprawl and its Transformation Over Land Use / Land Cover Using Geo Informatics: A Case Study on Madurai Fringe Area
Abstract:
The cities are growing in all directions resulting in urban sprawl and it is governed by geographic and socio-economic factors such as population growth, policy and economic development. Uncontrolled momentum of urban sprawl and land use change raises many issues which might have both positive and negative impacts. This sprawl can be effectively monitored using remotely sensed data from different dates by digital analysis of the imagery using change detection techniques. The present attempt aims to examine the change in demography, landuse /landcover (LU/LC) over a time point and assesses the pattern of sprawl through Geoinformatic technique in the fringe area of Madurai city. The geographical a real extend of Madurai fringe is 120.95 sq.km. It consist of 24 villages out of it 15 villages with 6 urban centers falls in the northern part and 9 including 3 urban centers falls in the southern part and it holds the total population of about 3,02,270 persons (Census, 2001). The spatio-temporal study of LU/LC is carried out for two time points 1997 and 2007. The data source used for analysis is IRS LISS pan merged (NRSC) and Geoeye imageries (Google Earth). The analysis mainly focused the demographic changes along with landuse/ landcover changes. The degree of impact on fringe areas is inferred from the analysis. The trend of sprawl is notably high in the urban centers than in the revenue villages in both the sides of the fringe of Madurai city. While comparatively examining the changes, the northern part shows a slighter increase in percentage of urban sprawl than the southern part.
Keywords: Change Detection, Landuse / Landcover, Urban Fringe, Urban Sprawl, Madurai
Volume: 2 | Issue: Special Issue on Geospatial Technology Development in Natural Resource and Disaster Management
Pages: 41-45
Issue Date: July , 2012
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