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Understanding urban sprawl dynamics of Gulbarga - Tier II city in Karnataka through spatio-temporal data and spatial metrics
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T.V. Ramachandra1,2,3,*                    Bharath H. Aithal1,2
1Energy & Wetlands Research Group, Centre for Ecological Sciences [CES], 2Centre for Sustainable Technologies (astra), 3Centre for infrastructure, Sustainable Transportation and Urban Planning [CiSTUP], Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore – 560012, India.
*Corresponding author: cestvr@ces.iisc.ernet.in

STUDY AREA


Figure 1: Study Area: Gulbarga

Gulbarga was known as 'Kalburgi' means "rose petals" in poetic Persian. Gulbarga district is located in the Northern part of the state and lies between latitude 17o10’ and 17o45’ N and longitude 76o10’ and 77o45’E. This is a biggest district in Karnataka State covering 8.49% of the area and 5.9% of State’s population. It is bounded by Bijapur district (of Karnataka) and Sholapur district (of Maharashtra), in the west by Bidar district (of Karnataka) and Osmanabad district (of Maharashtra) on the north and by Raichur district of Karnataka in the south.  It is one of the three districts that were transferred from Hyderabad State to Karnataka state at the time of re-organization of the state in 1956. Gulbarga is basically an agriculture dominated District with crops such as Tur, Jowar, Bajra, Paddy, Sugarcane and Cotton. District receives and annual rainfall of 839 mm. Gulbarga city with 5 km Buffer region is considered for the analysis. Gulbarga city has an area of 64.00 Sq. km with 55 Wards and an Population of 5.3 lakhs (Census 2001) and is governed by Gulbarga Mahanagara Palike.

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Citation : Ramachandra. T.V. and Bharath H. Aithal, 2012, Understanding urban sprawl dynamics of Gulbarga - Tier II city in Karnataka through spatio-temporal data and spatial metrics., International Journal of Geomatics and Geosciences, Volume 3, Issue 2, pp. 373-378.
* Corresponding Author :
Dr. T.V. Ramachandra
Energy & Wetlands Research Group, Centre for Ecological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore – 560 012, India.
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