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Integrated approach to visualize urban growth: case study of rapidly urbanising city
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Chandan M Ca *                             Bharath H Aithala                    Ramachandra T Vb                    
aRanbir and Chitra Gupta School of Infrastructure Design and Management,IIT Kharagpur, West Bengal 721302 India
bEnergy and Wetlands Research Group, Centre for Ecological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore – 560012, India.
*Corresponding author: chandan.gisnitk@gmail.com

Study Area

Hyderabad, the rapidly urbanizing city of Deccan plateau of India was chosen for the analysis. Presently Hyderabad is capital city for Telangana state and de facto capital for Andhra Pradesh after partition in the year 2014. Hyderabad lies on the banks of Musi River and surrounded by many water feeding lakes such as Osman sagar and Himayat sagar. With creation of special economic zones at Gachibowli, Pocharam, Manikonda etc. dedicated to information technology have encouraged companies from across India and around the world to set up operations. Erstwhile Hyderabad urban development authority (HUDA) was expanded in 2008 to form Hyderabad metropolitan area (HMA) covering 7100 km 2 and population of 7.74 million (2011). The location extents of Hyderabad region is depicted in figure 1.

Fig. 1 Study area: Hyderabad

3.1. Data Used

Landsat data (30m x 30m) were downloaded from USGS Earth Explorer (http://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/). It was seen that cloud cover for all these satellite images were minimum and multiple year data were obtained for the same month to avoid seasonal variations. Imageries were also downloaded from Aster GDEM satellite. Spatial reference for all these data were WGS 1984, UTM zone 44. Data used are as listed in table 1.

Data Year Purpose
Landsat 1989,1999, 2009, 2014 Land use and Land cover analysis.
Aster GDEM 2010 Extraction of Drainage lines, Slope analysis.
Google earth ---- Geo-correction, classification Validation of remote sensing data.
Survey of India Toposheets and Bhuvan data. ---- Base layers of the administrative boundary.

Table 1 Materials and data used for the analysis.

 

 

Citation : Chandan M C, Bharath H Aithal, Ramachandra T V, 2017, Integrated approach to visualize urban growth: case study of rapidly urbanising city. International Symposium on Water Urbanism and Infrastructure Development in Eco-Sensitive Zones 6-7 January 2017 Kolkata, India.
* Corresponding Author :
Chandan M C
Research Scholar
Ranbir and Chitra Gupta School of Infrastructure Design and Management, IIT Kharagpur, West Bengal 721302 India
E-mail : chandan.gisnitk@gmail.com
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