Conclusion

The escalating inappropriate growth of urban landscape has been a major concern in metropolitan cities of India due to poor environmental and living conditions in rapidly urbanizing landscapes. This research article clearly shows the land cover dynamics between the years 1989-2014, generated using vegetation index for Hyderabad. Outcome of this analysis indicate decrease in green cover suggesting increase of non-vegetative land use types. Further land use analysis demonstrated the rapid changes in landscape, especially the urban areas found to be spread over 75768 ha (2014) in Hyderabad region. Density gradient and spatial metrics output also revealed that the growth pattern of Hyderabad is sprawling in the periphery, especially along the highway road networks. The process of densification has spread out of the core during 1990’s as well as they have started to get clumped during 2010’s. Validated data outputs and findings of this research insists governmental agencies, planners and decision makers to emphasize more on implementing growth strategies for spatial development in future and accordingly thenecessary measures could be adapted to control or mitigate the negative potential impacts on the urban environment.