Urban growth monitoring and projection using remote sensing and geographic information systems: a case study in the Twin Cities Metropolitan Area,Minnesota

This study investigates urban growth dynamics from regional to local scales in the Twin Cities Metropolitan Area and demonstrates how metropolitan growth can be driven by policies. Urban change from 1975 to 2006 was detected using Landsat imagery. Future growth in 2030 was modelled based on two scenarios with or without regional development policies incorporated. City- or township-level growth was examined by a zonal analysis. Results show urban grew 126,700 ha from 1975 to 2006. The Markov-Cellular Automata model projected at least another 67,000 ha of urban growth from 2006 to 2030. When regional development policies were incorporated, homogeneous and compact growth patterns were predicted along the urban periphery; however, actual land supplies within the cities along the urban edge are facing challenges to accommodate the projected growth as large portions of suitable lands are located outside of the 2030 Municipal Urban Service Area boundary.     

Urban expansion in Xiongan New Area since 1975

Abstract

Although urban expansion has been extensively studied at different scales in China, relatively little attention has been paid to the county scale. Xiongan New Area (XNA) was selected as the study area and its urban expansion processes from 1975 to 2017 were retrieved using remote sensing and GIS technology, and its spatial-temporal characteristics of urban expansion were revealed from the aspects of basic characteristics of urban expansion, urban spatial morphological evolution, interactions of urban lands, and assessments of the imbalanced degree of population-land urbanization. Results indicated that urban lands in XNA expanded significantly. Cultivated lands were the first land source for urban expansion. Urban lands mainly adopted the edge-expansion, which rendered the urban fringes to be complex and irregular. The interaction of three counties in XNA was strengthened successively, especially after the implementation of the ‘New Urbanization’ strategy. Population-land urbanization was inharmonious but has improved from moderate to mild imbalance.     

Land transformation in Punjab — A case study of Kapurthala district

The map showing the extent of salt affected and sand dune soils was prepared at 1:50,000 scale using Landsat TM data for March 1987 and compared with the soil map of Kapurthala district based on 1965 aerial photographs and semi detailed survey of the district during 1975–76. The study revealed that in a span of 22 years (1965 to 1986) the area of sand dunes decreased from 22.7 per cent to 2.3 per cent and that of salt affected soils from 20.95 per cent to 4.38 per cent respectively as a consequence of reclamation of salt affected soils and clearing and levelling of sand dunes. Salt affected soils after reclamation have been brought under paddy-wheat rotation. Whereas sand dunes after clearing and levelling, have been brought under wheat or wheat -rice/fodder/oilseed crops.     

Inventory of derelict land around urban area a case study of Rohini,Delhi

This paper is based on the study done in Rohini and surrounding project area of Delhi. The objective of the paper is to evaluate the application of aerial remote sensing for preparing inventory of derelict land around urban areas. Inventory and monitoring of derelict lands is very important for urban planners and decision makers. Because of unmanageable growth of urban areas, the pressure on rich agricultural land in the urban-rural fringe is increasing day by day, while vast stretches of derelict land are lying unused. These derelict lands can be used for urban development, if properly mapped. An operational remote sensing methodology has been worked out. A classification has been developed and used for this study. Results of the ground truth collected have proved the efficacy of aerial remote sensing for such studies.     

Spatio-temporal analysis for monitoring urban growth – a case study of Indore City

Urban sprawl is characterized by haphazard patchwork of development, which leads to an improper development in any city. To prevent this kind of sprawl in future, it is necessary to monitor the growth of the city. Hence, an attempt has been made in the present study to monitor the urban growth over a period of time by employing Remote Sensing and Geographic Information System techniques in conjunction with Shannon entropy. Shannon entropy is a measure to determine the compactness or dispersion of built-up land growth in the urban areas. The growth patterns of urban built-up land have been studied initially by dividing the area into four zones. The observations have been made with respect to each zone. Then, the study area has been divided into concentric circles of 1 km buffers and the growth patterns have been studied based on urban built-up density with respect to each circular buffer in all four zones. These observations have been integrated with road network to check the influence of infrastructure on haphazard urban growth. It has been found from the study that Shannon entropy is a good measure to determine the spatial concentration or dispersion of built-up land in the city. The study also proved the potential of RS and GIS techniques in the spatio-temporal analysis of urban growth trends and their consequences in the lands adjoining to urban areas.     

基于VCM的建设用地空间分布格局对比研究

利用ArcGIS软件,通过空间聚散程度的测度方法以城市中心和主干道建立各县的VCM曲线,对比分析了各县的空间分布格局。其结果表明:(1)青河、布尔津、吉木乃、富蕴具有相似的空间分布特征,哈巴河和福海的空间分布特征各自具有独特的空间分布特征。(2)青河、布尔津、吉木乃、富蕴和哈巴河,其建设用地分布相对集中,其总体特征呈沿城市中心和主干道分布,而福海县的建设用地较为分散分布。(3)城市中心和主干道的区位影响研究区建设用地分布。     

Monitoring the impact of coal mining and thermal power industry on landuse pattern in and around Singrauli Coalfield using Remote Sensing data and GIS

Singrauli Coalfield spreading over an area of about 300 sq km along Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh border in the central part of India, is witnessing rapid industrialisation due to a large number of open pit coal mining projects and Super Thermal Power Station (STPS). Large scale mining activities along with operation of STPS have generated a great deal of environmental stress not only on the landuse pattern but also on various ecosystems in this region. An integrated remote sensing study was conducted to assess the impact of industrialisation on landuse pattern in the area under reference. The multispectral, multi-temporal data (1975, 1986 & 1991) of LANDSAT MSS and TM duly supplemented with ground truth were studied for generation of multidate landuse maps. Data base for landuse for the years 1975, 1986 and 1991 was created using PAMAP GIS for landuse analysis and change detection for optimal utilisation, planning and management of land resources. The study has revealed that the areas under built-up land, mining and fly ash pond have increased substantially from 1975 to 1991. Loss in forest cover and agricultural land has occurred due to rapid industrialisation in this region. It has been observed from the comparison of 1986 and 1991 data that the wasteland generated due to deforestation for initiating coal mining projects has gradually been reclaimed under operation “Green Gold” launched by Northern Coalfields Ltd. Further the wastelands have been effectively utilised for establishing the STPS, townships as well as other infrastructures in this area.     

Land Use/Cover Change Detection of Tiruchirapalli City, India, Using Integrated Remote Sensing and GIS Tools

The rapid growth of urban population in India is a cause of concern among country??s urban and town planners for efficient urban planning. The drastic growth of urban areas has resulted in sharp land use and land cover changes. In recent years, the significance of spatial data technologies, especially the application of remotely sensed data and geographical information systems (GIS) has been widely used. The present study investigates the urban growth of Tiruchirapalli city, Tamilnadu using IRS satellite data for the years 1989, 1992, 1995, 1998, 2001, 2004, 2007, and 2010. The eight satellite images are enhanced using convolution spatial enhancement method with Kernel (7?×?7) edge enhance function. Supervised classification method is used to classify the urban land use and land cover. The GIS is used to prepare the different layers belonging to various land uses identified from remotely sensed data. The analysis of the results show the drastic increase of built up area and reduced green cover within the city boundary limit.     

利用Landsat卫星影像进行东莞市地表温度反演与变化分析

随着快速城市化进程,我国东南沿海一些城市新增了大量的城市建设用地,影响到了城市的人居环境,诱发了城市热的环境问题。探索城市热环境时空布局与变化特征,分析变化原因对城市可持续发展和人居环境质量改善具有重要的现实意义。本文以东莞市为例,以1986—2017年间8个时相Landsat系列卫星影像为数据源,利用单通道算法对东莞市地表温度进行定量反演,分析东莞城市热环境的时空分布特征及其变化,并探讨其影响因素。结果表明,东莞市30多年的城市热环境主要表现为热岛的分布格局,由零散的点状分布逐渐发展成沿着主要交通路线的带状分布;东莞市城镇/街道中心的地表温度明显高于郊区、村落,存在较强的热岛效应;1986—2017年东莞市的热岛比例指数总体呈上升趋势,从0.06上升到0.15,在2009年东莞市热岛效应达到最高。研究结果对合理规划东莞城市建设,促进城市建设可持续发展等方面具有重要意义。     

Automatic urban road extraction using airborne laser scanning/altimetry and high resolution satellite data

Automatic road extraction from remotely sensed images has been an active research in urban area during last few decades. But such study becomes difficult in urban environment due to mix of natural and man-made features. This research explores methodology for semiautomatic extraction of urban roads. An integrated approach of airborne laser scanning (ALS) altimetry and high-resolution data has been used to extract road and differentiate them from flyovers. Object oriented fuzzy rule based approach classifies roads from high resolution satellite images. Complete road network is extracted with the combination of ALS and high-resolution data. The results show that an integration of LiDAR data and IKONOS data gives better accuracy for automatic road extraction. The method was applied on urban area of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.     

Analyzing Urban Sprawl in Rethymno,Greece

Analysis of urban sprawl is an issue that has been continuously attracting attention in the planning and research community. Τhis paper presents the results of an analysis of the growth of the city of Rethymno during the 1997–2010 time period. Rethymno is a city in the island of Crete in Greece with population of about 35,000 people, in which developed land has expanded at a rate that is double the growth of the population during the study period. A qualitative analysis was first performed to identify growth patterns in the different parts of the city, how these are related to planning regulations and the extent of cohesiveness of the development. A logistic regression model was estimated using various variables influencing the expansion of the built up area. Variables such as slope, distance from main roads, distance from the University, distance from coastline, as well as variables describing the proximity to other developed areas were used as independent variables in the logistic regressions. Planning constraints with respect zoning were also considered. The accuracy/goodness of fit of the simulation results were also tested using Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) curve. The results revealed high (performance) accuracy, which can support the applicability of the proposed method in urban sprawl modeling. Once the equations were estimated they were applied using data from 2010 to identify future trends of urbanization. The methodology adopted in this study can result in a tool that can be of use to urban planning authorities in identifying areas of future urban growth and therefore, adopt zoning policies encouraging or discouraging growth in these areas according to the sustainability objectives of the local community.     

Manifestation of Remote Sensing Data in Modeling Urban Sprawl Using the SLEUTH Model and Brute Force Calibration: A Case Study of Sana’a City, Yemen

Sana’a the metropolitan capital of Yemen, has experienced rapid spatial growth and uncontrolled development for decades. In the absence of a means to forecast and predict urban growth trends, planning and urban policy decisions have been found wanting. In this study the SLEUTH (Slope, landuse, exclusion, urban extent, transportation and hillshade) model which has been widely and successfully applied in developed countries, has been applied to predict the spatial urban sprawl pattern from 2004–2020 in Sana’a. This was to provide the necessary forecast for better planning and decision making. The model performed well as per the calibration coefficient values. The results showed that there will a 29 % increase in spatial urban sprawl growth during the modeling period. Growth of the sprawl will be mainly at the edges of the urban boundary, there will also be a wide area of scattered urban clusters. Factors that will have major influence on spatial expansion of the city will be diffusion, natural and internal growth, slope (that will hinder spread) and transportation (along which most of the urban sprawl will occur). The study also provides an insight into how the SLEUTH model performs in a poorly planned urban environment as compared to the planned and controlled environment where it has been applied.     

北京五六环区域绿化控制带发展潜力评估

以TM遥感图像为数据源，分析了北京五、六环之间土地格局的空间分布特征，评价了绿带发展的潜力。结果表明，穿越规划 区的几条重要交通干线构建了绿化控制带基本的楔形结构；各类非建设土地资源占60％左右，为绿地的发展提供了可直接利用潜力。 但现有土地资源布局零乱，缺乏科学有效的规划管理，各种大型城镇建设用地的空间格局已大大超过绿带的规划构想。提高建设用地 的空间利用率，缩小建设用地的空间规模，科学配置各类绿色景观是绿带建设中的重点和难点。     

Entropy Approach for Assessment of Urban Growth: A Case Study of Jaipur,INDIA

In India the last 30 years had witnessed a radical transformation of urban scene. In particular, during this period, the one lakh cities and million plus cities began to grow rapidly. In the present study, urban growth of Jaipur city in the last 31 years (1975–2006) was assessed. Jaipur ranks 11th in India with a total population of 2.3 million and has shown a consistent increase in the past 50 years. It is one of the fastest growing mega cities of the country with an annual average growth rate of 4.5% which is quite high from the national urban growth rate. Remote sensing and GIS have been used to extract the information related to urban growth-built up area and its spatial and temporal variation. The Shannon’s entropy at two levels (city as a whole and ward wise) is computed in order to quantify the form and patterns of urban growth using built up area as spatial phenomena. Further, multivariate statistical techniques have been used to establish the relationship between the urban growth and its causative and determining factors. Results of this study reveal that the growth rate of built up in Jaipur has outstripped the rate of population growth. Shannon’s entropy quantifies as dispersed form of urban growth till 2000 and after it, there is relative compactness in 2006.     

Land use mapping of kandi belt of jammu region

Digital image processing on IRS-1C-LISS-III data acquired on October 13, 1998 has been carried out to map the land use classes in part of the Kandi belt, the submontane tract lying in the Outer Himalaya of Jammu region of Jammu and Kashmir. Supervised classification has been combined with rule-based classification to delineate various land use classes. The various categories of land use in the area recognized are forest, agriculture, riverbed, urban, fallow, wasteland and water. Forest is dominant along the upper boundary of the Kandi belt (along Siwalik) and on ridges, whereas, agriculture land is mainly along the lower boundary (along Sirowal) of the study area.     

重庆市主城区城市路网演变分析及与城市扩张耦合性研究

研究结合重庆市主城区2011-2017年高分辨率遥感影像和相关地形图、规划资料及交通专题资料信息等,提取城市路网和城市建设用地数据,基于GIS操作平台,采用空间核密度方法分析主城区城市路网时空演变特征,探索城市路网空间分布规律,以街道(镇)为研究单元分析城市道路与城市用地扩张之间的耦合关系,为合理规划交通道路布局,促进城市扩张与道路网络的协调发展提供了重要参考依据。结果表明,主城区城市路网分布具有空间不均衡性特征,路网演变有明显的方向性,以东西两翼带状区域变化为主,路网密度变化集中在低密度区。与城市用地扩张相关性研究中发现,城市路网是城市扩张的主要驱动力之一,路网中密度区域对城市扩张的驱动效应最明显。     

Monitoring Urban Landscape Dynamics Over Delhi (India) Using Remote Sensing (1998–2011) Inputs

Urbanization is increasingly becoming a widespread phenomenon at all scales of development around the globe. Be it developing or developed nations, all are witnessing urbanization at very high pace. In order to study its impacts, various methodologies and techniques are being implemented to measure growth of urban extents over spatial and temporal domains. But urbanization being a very dynamic phenomenon has been facing ambiguities regarding methods to study its dynamism. This paper aims at quantifying urban expansion in Delhi, the capital city of India. The process has been studied using urban land cover pattern derived from Landsat TM/ETM satellite data for two decades (1998–2011). These maps show that built-up increased by 417 ha in first time period (1998–2003) and 6,633 ha during next period (2003–2011) of study. For quantification of metrics for urban expansion, the Urban Landscape Analysis Tool (ULAT) was employed. Land cover mapping was done with accuracy of 92.67 %, 93.3 % and 96 % respectively for years 1998, 2003 and 2011. Three major land covers classes mapped are; (i) built-up, (ii) water and (iii) other or non-built-up. The maps were then utilized to extract degree of urbanization based on spatial density of built-up area consisting of seven classes, (i) Urban built-up, (ii) Suburban built-up,(iii) Rural built-up, (iv) Urbanized open land, (v) Captured open land, (vi) Rural open land and (vii) Water. These classes were demarcated based on the urbanness of cells. Similarly urban footprint maps were generated. The two time maps were compared to qualitatively and quantitatively capture the dynamics of urban expansion in the city. Along with urbanized area and urban footprint maps, the new development areas during the study time periods were also identified. The new development areas consisted of three major categories of developments, (i) infill, (ii) extension and (iii) leapfrog.     

Potential of satellite data in delineation of wastelands and correlation with ground information

In the present study an attempt has been made to delineate the wastelands at microlevel in Matar taluka of Kheda district. IRS OSS II digital data of 1991 has been used for the study which was analysed on VAX 11/780 image processing system. The digital data was classified following supervised classification algorithm. The three types of wastelands namely waterlogged, pasture/grazing and salt affected lands could be identified and mapped. The area statistics for the different wasteland categories present in the taluka were generated. Chemical analysis was also carried out for soils collected from different categories of wastelands to understand the exact nature of soils of each category.     

武汉城镇化与热岛效应的定量研究

针对目前城市化进程加快对城市增温和城市热岛效应的促进作用尚不十分明确的问题,提出基于遥感技术的城镇化与热岛效应数量关系的构建。结果表明,1987-2013年间,武汉市中城镇化水平(50%~80%ISA)面积增加了14.5倍,高城镇化水平(80%~100%ISA)面积增加了2.8倍,城镇化范围沿着武汉市主城区和主要干道不断扩张;不透水面值与地表温度表现出明显正相关,不透水面值平均增加1%,可使地表温度增温0.06℃~0.19℃,城镇化水平对武汉城市热岛效应作用明显。研究结果为探讨城市热岛效应的缓解对策提供了基础,对合理规划和管理城市化意义重大。     

Improving the capability of an integrated CA-Markov model to simulate spatio-temporal urban growth trends using an Analytical Hierarchy Process and Frequency Ratio

The creation of an accurate simulation of future urban growth is considered one of the most important challenges in urban studies that involve spatial modeling. The purpose of this study is to improve the simulation capability of an integrated CA-Markov Chain (CA-MC) model using CA-MC based on the Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) and CA-MC based on Frequency Ratio (FR), both applied in Seremban, Malaysia, as well as to compare the performance and accuracy between the traditional and hybrid models. Various physical, socio-economic, utilities, and environmental criteria were used as predictors, including elevation, slope, soil texture, population density, distance to commercial area, distance to educational area, distance to residential area, distance to industrial area, distance to roads, distance to highway, distance to railway, distance to power line, distance to stream, and land cover. For calibration, three models were applied to simulate urban growth trends in 2010; the actual data of 2010 were used for model validation utilizing the Relative Operating Characteristic (ROC) and Kappa coefficient methods Consequently, future urban growth maps of 2020 and 2030 were created. The validation findings confirm that the integration of the CA-MC model with the FR model and employing the significant driving force of urban growth in the simulation process have resulted in the improved simulation capability of the CA-MC model. This study has provided a novel approach for improving the CA-MC model based on FR, which will provide powerful support to planners and decision-makers in the development of future sustainable urban planning.