Urban change monitoring using GIS and remote sensing tools in Kathmandu valley (Nepal)

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Main Author: Bhandari, Sushil
Publication Date: 2010
Format: Master thesis
Language: eng
Source: Repositórios Científicos de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (RCAAP)
Download full: http://hdl.handle.net/10362/2731
Summary: Dissertation submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Science in Geospatial Technologies
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spelling Urban change monitoring using GIS and remote sensing tools in Kathmandu valley (Nepal)Geographic information systemsKathmandu valleyLand use & cover change modelRemote sensingUrbanizationDissertation submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Science in Geospatial TechnologiesThe urbanization pattern during the period of 1989 to 2006 of Kathmandu valley was studied using Landsat data. The main aims of the study were to apply Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Remote Sensing tools for the study of land use and land cover classification, change analysis and urban growth model for 2019 of the Kathmandu valley. The study also reviewed population growth and urbanization trends in connection with increasing built up areas leading to the environmental degradation. The population growth and urbanization trend of Kathmandu valley was the highest among other cities in Nepal. Principal component analysis was applied to spectrally enhance images to get the better image classification results. Images were classified in six land use and land cover classes using supervised classification and maximum likelihood algorithm which were then re-classed into built up and non-built up to focus on urbanization. The analysis showed that the built up area had grown up to 134% in 2006 since 1989. The assessed overall accuracies for the classification of three images were between 86 to 89 percentages. Cellular Automata Markov (CA_MARKOV) and GEOMOD modeling programs were used to project the 2006 and then 2019 land use and land cover classes. The 2019 land use and land covers was projected after satisfactory validation of projected 2006 land classes resulting with Kappa more than 0.55 up to 0.75. The future projection of land classes did not show that the urban growth will have significant effects to the designated areas. However, there will be some effects in water bodies. The Landsat images along with other ancillary data proved to be useful for the overall study.Cabral, Pedro da Costa BritoCaetano, Mário Sílvio Rochinha de AndradePla Bañón, FilibertoRUNBhandari, Sushil2010-03-11T16:44:33Z2010-03-022010-03-02T00:00:00Zinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/masterThesisapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10362/2731enginfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessreponame:Repositórios Científicos de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (RCAAP)instname:FCCN, serviços digitais da FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologiainstacron:RCAAP2024-05-22T17:07:07Zoai:run.unl.pt:10362/2731Portal AgregadorONGhttps://www.rcaap.pt/oai/openaireinfo@rcaap.ptopendoar:https://opendoar.ac.uk/repository/71602025-05-28T16:38:10.429226Repositórios Científicos de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (RCAAP) - FCCN, serviços digitais da FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologiafalse
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Urban change monitoring using GIS and remote sensing tools in Kathmandu valley (Nepal)
title Urban change monitoring using GIS and remote sensing tools in Kathmandu valley (Nepal)
spellingShingle Urban change monitoring using GIS and remote sensing tools in Kathmandu valley (Nepal)
Bhandari, Sushil
Geographic information systems
Kathmandu valley
Land use & cover change model
Remote sensing
Urbanization
title_short Urban change monitoring using GIS and remote sensing tools in Kathmandu valley (Nepal)
title_full Urban change monitoring using GIS and remote sensing tools in Kathmandu valley (Nepal)
title_fullStr Urban change monitoring using GIS and remote sensing tools in Kathmandu valley (Nepal)
title_full_unstemmed Urban change monitoring using GIS and remote sensing tools in Kathmandu valley (Nepal)
title_sort Urban change monitoring using GIS and remote sensing tools in Kathmandu valley (Nepal)
author Bhandari, Sushil
author_facet Bhandari, Sushil
author_role author
dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv Cabral, Pedro da Costa Brito
Caetano, Mário Sílvio Rochinha de Andrade
Pla Bañón, Filiberto
RUN
dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Bhandari, Sushil
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Geographic information systems
Kathmandu valley
Land use & cover change model
Remote sensing
Urbanization
topic Geographic information systems
Kathmandu valley
Land use & cover change model
Remote sensing
Urbanization
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