Acknowledgement

We are grateful to (i) the NRDMS Division, The Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of India, (ii) Asia pacific network (APN) and (iii) ISRO-IISC-STC, Indian Institute of Science for the financial and infrastructure support. This research has been carried out with the financial support from ISRO-IISc_STC and preliminary results of land use analyses, spatial patterns of urbanisation in Bhopal were presented in Lake 2014 conference (http://wgbis.ces.iisc.ernet.in/energy/lake2014/program -schedule.php). Suggestions of the conference and ABM have been implemented in the current publication.