TY  - SER
AU  - Hussain,Mubushar
AU  - Delsol,Jean Pierre
AU  - Kaew Naulchawee, 
AU  - Sheng,Yap Kioe
ED  - CIDA (Canadian International Development Agency), 
TI  - Assessment of land use pattern and urban fringe dynamics using remote sensing and geographic information systems: a case study of Lahore Metropolitan, Pakistan
T2  - Research studies project report
PY  - 1995///
CY  - Bangkok
PB  - Asian Institute of Technology
KW  - Land use, Urban
KW  - Pakistan
KW  - Lahore
N1  - A research study submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of  Science, School of Environment, Resources & Development; Research Studies Project Report (M. Sc.) - Asian Institute of Technology, 1995
N2  - The 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
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