Urban sprawl monitoring of Madurai city using land cover Change detection techniques

Abstract

Growth in urban landscape implies that a city has made rapid newlinestrides in development The major reason for urban growth is the migration newlineof the people from the rural areas to urban areas in search of jobs in newlineindustries Explosive urban growth leads to haphazard expansion of the newlinecity In the event of no standard policy and guidelines for urbanisation newlinecities shall tend to have irregular growth With India emerging as the newlineinformation technology hub of the world the need of the hour is to have a newlinecritical relook at the urban planning of Tier 2 and Tier 3 cities so as to newlinemeet the infrastructural and human resource needs of information newlinetechnology sector Madurai the second largest city in Tamil Nadu faces newlinethe problem of urban sprawl like many of the Tier II cities in the country newlineIssues of urban sprawl need to be addressed with the help of technologies newlinesuch as change detection using satellite remote sensing and proper urban newlinedevelopment plans This thesis addresses the following urban planning newlineissues in respect of Madurai a typical Tier II city newline