P.Jasmine Lois Ebenezer, S.Jebalyn Grace
Urban sprawl refers to the extent of urbanization. Urban sprawl is a worldwide phenomenon which has significant effect on natural resources and urban environment. Urban sprawl is mainly driven by population growth and large scale migration. With increased availability and improved quality of multi-spatial and multi-temporal remote sensing data it is possible to analyse urban sprawl in a timely and cost effective way. This study aims to analyse the urban sprawl and land use land cover change with remote sensing and GIS techniques for Palayamkottai Taluk, Tirunelveli district, Tamilnadu lokcated in India. The changes were analysed from Landsat images of 1992 and 2017. The images for the two periods were downloaded, layer stacked and corrected before main processing work. Erdas Imagine and ArcGIS were used for data processing and analysis. The results were presented in maps, tables and charts.
Urban sprawl; land use land cover change; remote sensing; GIS techniques;