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Priya, N. and Hanjagi, A.D. (2009) Land Transformation: A Threat on Bangalore’s Ecology—A Challenge for Sustainable Development. Theoretical and Empirical Researches in Urban Management Special Number 1S/April 2009: Urban Issues in Asia.

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• TITLE: Quantification of Urban Expansion Using Geospatial Technology—A Case Study in Bangalore

  AUTHORS: Puspa P. Dash, Ritu Kakkar, V. Shreenivas, P. Jeya Prakash, D. J. Mythri, K. H. Vinaya Kumar, Vanashree Vipin Singh, R. M. N. Sahai

  KEYWORDS: Urban Expansion, Land Use, Land Cover, Change Analysis, Satellite Data, GIS

  JOURNAL NAME: Advances in Remote Sensing, Vol.4 No.4, December 23, 2015

  ABSTRACT: Quantification of urban expansion helps us to understand human induced effects on the environment in a temporal scale. Growing urbanization in Bangalore has resulted in demand for more space and resources. Since last 15 years the landuse and landcover of Bangalore area has been changed drastically due to increase in settlement, urban infrastructure, opening of roads and metros etc. Using geospatial tools, we studied the changes in landuse and landcover over 19 years (1992-2011) of period and changes in transport network over 41 years (1970-2011) in parts of Bangalore. Thus, the current study shows that the built-up area has been increased drastically, tree cover areas have been converted to agricultural lands and agricultural lands to built-up areas due to urbanization. There are also changes in drainage pattern, transport network and encroachment of water bodies. Thus the whole environment is getting affected adversely due to unplanned and rapid urban sprawl.