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
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
OBJECTIVE:

To understand the potentiality of Remote Sensing and GIS

by studying the applications on urban planning.
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).
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)
2.NEED OF RS AND GIS IN PLANNING:

GIS Capabilities
▶ Important source of data for urban
• Topological map overlay
landuse/land cover mapping.
• Buffer generation
▶ Environmental and Resource monitoring.
• Proximity analysis
▶ More Accurate.
• Spatial data management
▶ Flexible.
• Location\Allocation modeling
▶ Efficient Decision making tool in Planning
process. • Network analysis
• Sophisticated tabular analysis
▶ Cost and time effective and reliable.
• Cartography and mapping
▶ Integrate Spatial and Attribute data.
• Report generation
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..
3.1. Base Map Preparation:
# 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.

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.

Source: Author.
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.
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.
3.3. Delineation of Environmental Sensitive and fragile areas:

LULC Map
(2010-11)

- Using overlaying technique

in GIS.
SoilMap

Final Outcome as a composite

map layer delineates the
SoilErosion
Map

delicate fragile areas.

SlopeMap

Source: IDDP, Kollam.

3.4. Monitoring Temporal Changes: Urban Growth

- Temporal Data is
obtained and Digitized.
- Overlapping the layers
to identify the direction
of the growth of the
town.

Source: Bhopal Development Authority

3.5. Urban land Suitability Analysis:

Source: Bhopal Development Authority

Selection of Parameter is critical:
4. Future is Web GIS, IOT & Big DATA……..

✓ New Methodology to data collection

✓ Closed System to Open System

✓ Self explorative and explaining Maps

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.
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