02986nas|a2200241 i 450000500170000000800410001703500150005810000220007324501660009526000520026130000140031349000520032750001590037950200830053852017340062165000380235570000390239370000450243270000440247771000740252181000840259585600650267920260817163608.0151096s1995    th uu m rtt  00|  a1eng d  a.b115391851 aHussain, Mubushar10aAssessment of land use pattern and urban fringe dynamics using remote sensing and geographic information systems :ba case study of Lahore Metropolitan, Pakistan  aBangkok :bAsian Institute of Technology,c1995  a89 leaves1 aResearch studies project report ;vno. NR-95-03  aA research study submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of  Science, School of Environment, Resources & Development   aResearch Studies Project Report (M. Sc.) - Asian Institute of Technology, 1995  aThe assessment of land use pattern and urban fringe dynamics is very much important and  inevitable for planning and monitoring the urban environment, particularly for a metropolis like  Lahore. The study is aimed to investigate land use and spatial growth of Lahore Metropolitan with  an attempt to explore the application of two emerging technologies of Remote Sensing and  Geographic Information System (GIS) for these purposes. SPOT satellite data of 06 May 1986  and 23 Oct 1994 in the form of photo images are used, and an indepth interpretation and analysis  of these images is performed by visual approach. A GIS model prepared to store, manipulate,  analyze, and presentation of useful information; using satellite data, exogenous data and field  surveys (ground truthing) as the input. As such, Pakistan has not entered in the epoch of the use  of Remote Sensing and GIS for urban environmental planning and management. The study  identified the synergism of SPOT (Pan & XS) and GIS as very successful and proved a viable  data source and data management system, and it is equally replicable to other urban areas as well.  The results of the study revealed that the city is expanding very rapidly at the cost of agricultural  land in the southern direction, in the form of periodic waves of leaping out and filling in vacant  land. This uni-directional fleet dynamic of fringe line is creating an imbalance situation which can  be checked by proper monitoring which in turn, required unremitting flow of information. So, this  situation will make it obligatory to use the new technologies. Future generation of satellite  products and improvement in GIS will make it more easy to undertake the built urban  environment.10aLand use, UrbanxPakistanxLahore1 aDelsol, Jean Pierre, eChairperson0 aKaew Naulchawee, eExamination Committee1 aSheng, Yap Kioe,eExamination Committee2 aCIDA (Canadian International Development Agency), eScholarship Donor2 aAsian Institute of Technology.tResearch studies project report ;vno. NR-95-03  3Full-Textuhttp://203.159.5.9/ait-thesis/detail.php?q=B15486