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Insights to Urban Dynamics through Landscape Spatial Pattern Analysis
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Ramachandra T V a,b,c,*                Bharath H. Aithal a,b                Durgappa D. Sanna b
a Energy & Wetlands Research Group, Center for Ecological Sciences [CES], b Centre for Sustainable Technologies (astra), c Centre for infrastructure, Sustainable Transportation and Urban Planning [CiSTUP], Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, Karnataka, 560 012, India
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Objective

The objective of this study is to understand the urbanization and urban sprawl process in a rapidly urbanizing landscape, through spatial techniques involving temporal remote sensing data, geographic information system with spatial metrics. This involved (i) temporal analysis of land use pattern, (ii) exploring interconnection and effectiveness of population indices, Shannon's entropy   for  quantifying and understanding urbanisation and (iii) understanding the spatial patterns of urbanization at landscape level through  metrics.

 

 
Citation : Ramachandra. T.V., Bharath H. Aithal and Durgappa D. Sanna, 2012. Insights to Urban Dynamics through Landscape Spatial Pattern Analysis., International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, Vol. 18, Pp. 329-343.
* 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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E-mail : cestvr@ces.iisc.ernet.in, energy@ces.iisc.ernet.in,     Web : http://wgbis.ces.iisc.ernet.in/energy
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