Application of Geospatial Techniques in the Study of Urban Growth/ Sprawl

Urban growth is desirable for development. However, it is necessary to keep monitoring urban growth in any area to ensure that urban growth/sprawl does not become unsustainable. The study and monitoring of urban growth/sprawl is important to maintain good quality of life and inclusive development through proper policy intervention at the right time. Application of geospatial technique has been found to be appropriate to study and monitor urban growth/sprawl as it enables real time monitoring besides being cost and time saving technique. In this study, geospatial technique has been used to study and monitor urban growth in urban zone of Greater Noida Industrial Development Authority (GNIDA) in Uttar Pradesh. It has been found that rapid urbanization is taking place in the study area and the development needs to be closely watched and analyzed. The geospatial Technique was found to be quite useful in the study.