¹Energy & Wetlands Research Group, Centre for Ecological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. cestvr@ces.iisc.ernet.in
² Research Associate at Indian Institute of Science (IISc). bharath@ces.iisc.ernet.in
³research scholar at Energy and Wetlands Research Group (EWRG), Centre for Ecological Sciences (CES), Indian Institute of Science (IISc). vinay@ces.iisc.ernet.in
⁴Faculty at Centre for Ecological Sciences (CES), Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore
⁵currently Post-doctoral fellow at NASA AMES Research Centre, USA
⁶Group Head, Urban Studies & Geoinformatics, National Remote Sensing Centre (NRSC), Indian

Conclusion

Indian cities are growing at a higher rate due to higher inflow and investments from the industrial hubs. Populations in the cities are growing at a very high rate due which the cities with tie tend to become Tire 1 city or Mega city. Modeling considering various factors and constraints of development helps in identifying the regions of growth. The current demonstrates modeling of urban growth using historical remote sensing data and visualization of future landscape dynamics. Agent based models consider various factors contributing to the growth and provided valuable insights to landscape dynamics. The predictions shows higher tendency of urbanization along the arterial roads, and industries, followed by major amenities such as transport sectors and educational institutions. The outcome of these models helps the city planners to plan the city for providing basic amenities including proper infrastructure, making city in to a livable/smart city.