URBAN FOOTPRINT OF MUMBAI - THE COMMERCIAL CAPITAL OF INDIA

Ramachandra. T.V 1,2,3,*, Bharath H. Aithal2, Sowmyashree M.V1
1Energy & Wetlands Research Group, Center for Ecological Sciences [CES]
2Centre for Sustainable Technologies (astra)
3Centre for infrastructure, Sustainable Transportation and Urban Planning [CiSTUP] Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, Karnataka, 560 012, India
*Corresponding Author: cestvr@ces.iisc.ernet.in
Citation: Ramachandra T. V., Bharath H. A. and Sowmyashree M. V., 2014. Urban footprint of Mumbai - the commercial capital of India, Journal of Urban and Regional Analysis, VI (1): 71– 94

Data

Data used for assessing urban dynamics included multispectral data of Landsat series and collateral data (such as the Survey of India topographic sheets), which are listed in Table 2.

DATA

Year

Purpose

Landsat Series Multispectral sensor(57.5m)

1973

Land cover and Land use analysis

Landsat Series Thematic mapper (28.5m) and Enhanced Thematic Mapper sensors

1992, 1998, 2009

Land cover and Land use analysis

Survey of India (SOI) topo sheets of 1:50000 and 1:250000 scales

 

To Generate boundary and Base layer maps.

Field visit data –captured using GPS

 

For geo-correcting and generating validation dataset

Table 2: Data used for assessing urban dynamics

 
* Corresponding Author :
  Dr. T.V. Ramachandra
Energy & Wetlands Research Group, Centre for Ecological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore – 560 012, INDIA.		   Tel : 91-80-23600985 / 22932506 / 22933099,
Fax : 91-80-23601428 / 23600085 / 23600683 [CES-TVR]
E-mail : cestvr@ces.iisc.ernet.in, energy@ces.iisc.ernet.in,
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