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1. APPLICATION OF REMOTE
SENSING AND GIS IN URBAN
PLANNING
SEMINAR PRESENTATION
ON
TP7103 PLANNING THEORY &
TECHNIQUES
NOVEMBER 2017
P.KARTHICK KRISHNA
1ST
SEMESTER, M.PLAN
SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE AND
PLANNING

2. CONTENTS:
1. INTRODUCTION.
2. NEED OF REMOTE SENSING AND GIS IN PLANNING
3. APPLICATION OF REMOTE SENSING AND GIS
4. FUTURE IS WEB GIS,INTERNERT OF THINGS & BIG DATA ….
5. CONCLUSION
6. REFERENCES

3. OBJECTIVE:
To understand the potentiality of Remote Sensing and GIS
by studying the applications on urban planning.

4. INTRODUCTION:
Remote Sensing is:
”the measurement and analysis of
electromagnetic radiation reflected from,
transmitted through, or absorbed and
scattered by the atmosphere, the
hydrosphere and by material at or near the
land surface, for the purpose of
understanding and managing the Earth’s
resource and environment”
(Larry Morley, Teledetection International).

5. GIS :”is an integrated system of
computer hardware, software, and
trained personnel linking topographic,
utility, facility, image and other
resource data that is geographically
referenced” (NASA, 2000)

6. 2.NEED OF RS AND GIS IN PLANNING:
▶ Important source of data for urban
landuse/land cover mapping.
▶ Environmental and Resource monitoring.
▶ More Accurate.
▶ Flexible.
▶ Efficient Decision making tool in Planning
process.
▶ Cost and time effective and reliable.
▶ Integrate Spatial and Attribute data.
GIS Capabilities
• Topological map overlay
• Buffer generation
• Proximity analysis
• Spatial data management
• LocationAllocation modeling
• Network analysis
• Sophisticated tabular analysis
• Cartography and mapping
• Report generation

7. 3.APPLICATION OF REMOTE
SENSING AND GIS:
3.1. BASE MAP PREPARATION PROCESS:
3.2. URBAN LAND SUITABILITY ANALYSIS
3.3. MONITORING TEMPORAL CHANGES: URBAN GROWTH, LAND USE CHANGES
3.4. DELINEATING ENVIRONMENTAL SENSITIVE AND FRAGILE AREAS.
3.5. LOCATIONAL ANALYSIS.
3.6. OPTIMAL ROUTE ANALYSIS.
3.7. STUDY OF URBAN BUILT UP AND OPEN SPACES.
3.8. TERRAIN MODELLING.
3.9. GREEN COVER MAPPING IN URBAN AREA: TREE CANOPY
3.10. MAPPING URBAN HEAT ISLAND.
3.11. URBAN WATERSHED MODELLING: FLOOD ASSESSMENT.
3.12. URBAN POLLUTION MAPPING
3.13. HAZARDOUS ZONE MAPPING
And so on..

8. 3.1. Base Map Preparation:
Wealth of information pertaining to land features, land use,
built up areas, town structure, physical aspects of
environment etc. are available from the aerial photography.
# Digitization of planning base maps
facilitated updating of base maps wherever
changes have taken place.
# Superimposition of revenue maps on
base maps with reasonable accuracy is great
advantage compared to manually done jobs.
Source: Author.

9. 3.2. Terrain Modelling:
Using RS data and GIS, the terrain is created.
It helpful tool to identify the flood plains, by
inferring the slope and contour details.
Source: Author.

10. 3.3. Urban Watershed Modelling: - ASTER Digital Elevation
Model is obtained from
USGS.
- Using GIS to identify the
micro watershed.
- Deriving the natural
streams in a micro
watershed
- Overlaying existing SWD
with natural surface
streams.
Source: Author.

11. 3.3. Delineation of Environmental Sensitive and fragile areas:
SoilMap
SoilErosion
Map
SlopeMap
LULC Map
(2010-11)
- Using overlaying technique
in GIS.
Final Outcome as a composite
map layer delineates the
delicate fragile areas.
Source: IDDP, Kollam.

12. 3.4. Monitoring Temporal Changes: Urban Growth
Source: Bhopal Development Authority
- Temporal Data is
obtained and Digitized.
- Overlapping the layers
to identify the direction
of the growth of the
town.

13. 3.5. Urban land Suitability Analysis:
Source: Bhopal Development Authority

14. Selection of Parameter is critical:

15. 4. Future is Web GIS, IOT & Big DATA……..
✓ New Methodology to data collection
✓ Self explorative and explaining Maps
✓ Closed System to Open System

16. 5.Conclusion:
✓ Remote Sensing and GIS is an intelligent combination that
could deliver the efficiency, accuracy and inducing innovative
methodology in data collection and analysis.
✓ The are numerous application emerging through the
technological advancement in the Teledetection filed makes
future to rely on RS and GIS.

17. 5.References:
❖ Remote Sensing and Urban Analysis, Taylor and Francis
Publications, London.
❖ Patkar, V.N. (2003), “Directions for GIS in Urban Planning”
❖ Tiwari, D.P. (2006), Remote Sensing and GIS for efficient
❖ Urban Planning, GIS Development.
❖ GIS for Urban and Regional Planning, ESRI