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Exposition of Urban Structure and Dynamics through Gradient Landscape Metrics for Sustainable Management of Greater Bangalore
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T.V. Ramachandra1,2,3,*              Vishnu Bajpai1              Bharath H. Aithal1,2                Settur Bharath1               Uttam Kumar1
1 Energy and Wetlands Research Group, Centre for Ecological Sciences [CES], 2 Centre for Sustainable Technologies (astra)
3 Centre for infrastructure, Sustainable Transportation and Urban Planning [CiSTUP]
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore – 560012, India.
*Corresponding author: cestvr@ces.iisc.ernet.in

Data and Study area

Remote sensing data of Landsat Thematic Mapper (TM) and Landsat Enhance TM Plus (ETM+) for the period 1999 to 2008 were downloaded from public domain (http://glovis.usgs.gov/, http://glcfapp.glcf.umd.edu:8080/esdi/index.jsp).  Data pertains to five years series - 1999, 2000, 2003, 2006 and 2008. Urban dynamics was analysed for Greater Bangalore with circular buffer of 10 km considering the City Business District as centre Figure 1.  It is capital city of Karnataka with an area of 741 sq. km., lies between 12°39’00’’ to 13°13’00’’N and 77°22’00’’ to 77°52’00’’E. It is one of the fastest growing cities in India and is branded for heralding and spearheading the growth of Information Technology (IT) based industries in the country. It is the fifth largest metropolis in India The population of Bangalore is about 8 million (Ramachandra and Kumar, 2008; Sudhira et al., 2007).


Figure 1: Study area – Greater Bangalore, Karnataka State, India

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Citation : Ramachandra. T.V., Vishnu Bajpai, Bharath H. Aithal, Settur Bharath and Uttam Kumar, 2011. Exposition of Urban Structure and Dynamics through Gradient Landscape Metrics for Sustainable Management of Greater Bangalore, FIIB Business Review. Volume 1, Issue 1, October - December 2011.
* 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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