Urban Settlements and Landuse Mapping with the emphasis on Slims in Kanpur Metropolis, India using Aerial Remote Sensing Technique
S. K. Shukla S. Ajaya Kumar & Miss Suchandra Ray
Abstract
Due to rapid urbanization and the attendant urban problems it has become imperative to start an integrated approach for detailed urban planning by way of monitoring the current uses of land and prospecting for suitable space available for various urban activities to cope up with the inexorable urban growth of today with far reaching implications in future particularly i those places where congestion is increasing and slums are spreading the need for integrated approach becomes even more important hence a befitting faster spatial information extraction system is requested.
Kanpur Metropolis the industrial hub of the state of Uttar Pradesh with a population of 1.68 million in 1981 and an urban area approx 400 sq. km is the eighth largest city in India. the city has under ground rapid in the urban land use due to further industrialization and increase in urban sprawl kanpur metropolis is now facing enormous problems of almost every kind of urban disorder.
the results of the study on study urban settlements and land use are based on visual interpretation of aerial photograph on a scale of 1:100,000 covering an area of about 408 sq.km under the residential land use the category of the slum amounts to 0.33% of the total urban land use slum categorization was done considering the different stages of growth areal exent and the spatial context of the pockets including the evolutionary changes occuring in squatter settlements which are linked to their work places like industries trade and commercials activity center.
Introduction
The existing urban structure of any city can not accommodate the inexorable growth of urban population specially sue to expansion growth of industries impact of rapid development ever increasing migration from degraded environment water scarcity etc. presents problems of almost every kind of urban disorders and to achieve the objective of intergraded urban planning of cities effectively of remote sensing be used not only for predation of one plan but also for periodic monitoring of the growing cities.
Kanpur metropolis known as a slum city northern India is the eighth largest city in the country and has under gone extremely fast areal expansion during the period of 1986-89 due to further industrialization and unprecedented and basis amenities of the urban population the number of badly sheltered urban dwellers has continued to gorw the city is facing problems is almost all areas of urban concern viz congestion shortage of housing inadequate transport faster industrialization the existing over population which is expected to grow exotically in future. in fact kanpur metropolis is a typical example of a almost every kind of urban disorder as slims in order to suggest a new problem solving urban activities system.
