Urban Sprawl Monitoring using Remote Sensing and GIS Techniques of the City Jaipur, India

Pushpendra Singh Sisodia, Vivekananda Tiwari and Anil Kumar Dahiya
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Pushpendra Singh Sisodia: Manipal University Jaipur, Jaipur, India
Vivekananda Tiwari: Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Manipal University Jaipur, Jaipur, India
Anil Kumar Dahiya: Department Computer Science and Engineering, Manipal University Jaipur, Jaipur, India

International Journal of Applied Geospatial Research (IJAGR), 2016, vol. 7, issue 3, 93-104

Abstract: The rapid increase in population of India forced people to migrate from rural areas and small towns to metropolitan cities for better employment, education, and, good lifestyle. Major cities of India were industrialized and required more work force in metropolitan cities, leading to uncoordinated and unplanned growth, often termed as urban sprawl. Urban sprawl destroyed the natural resources such as open green space, agricultural land, open water bodies and ground water. In this paper, an attempt has been made to monitor urban sprawl using Shannon's Entropy model, Remote Sensing, and GIS for city Jaipur, India. The changed entropy value during the years 1972–2013 proves more dispersed growth in the city. The built-up area of Jaipur has increased from 40 km2 in 1972 to 400 km2 in 2013. Land use percentage of urban settlement is doubled as compared to the urban population of Jaipur during 1972–2013. This study shows remarkable urban sprawl in fringe areas of Jaipur city in the last 41 years.

Date: 2016
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