Volume : 5, Issue : 9, September - 2016

Monitoring Physical Expansion of Pune City Using GIS and Remote Sensing Techniques

Dr. Nitin Nathuram Mundhe

Abstract :

<p>&nbsp;Urbanisation is correlated with population density and built-up density. The haphazardly increasing trend of urbanisation creates problems like increasing cost of land, urban congestion, poor housing structure, low educational status, lack of basic urban services and other related problems. This is mainly due to uncontrolled and unplanned urban expansion. The present research work is an attempt to monitoring physical expansion of Pune City during 1973-2014 with the help of GIS and remote sensing techniques. The city has been expanding in all directions during the last four decades but this is more pronounced to the east of the city than to the west, due to natural barrier like hills and undulating topography. The major problem of the study area has shifting of agricultural areas into non-agricultural uses.</p>