Analysing Urban Land Use Change in GIS Environment

Urban areas are growing at an unprecedented rate creating far-reaching urban landscapes. The
gradual transformation from farmlands, forested areas into urban concrete landscape has caught the attention
of urban planners and academicians. It is understood that in order to monitor and assess these gradual
changes in urban environments, modern technology of remote sensing can provide better and efficient
management. Therefore, this present paper emphasise the ability of the modern technology to map and
monitor the spatial extent of the built environment, and associated temporal changes, which has important
societal and economic relevance. Further, the paper underline the utility of Multi-temporal satellite data
which can now provide the potential for mapping and monitoring urban land use change.