Metropolitan regions worldwide are experiencing rapid urban growth and the planners often
employ prediction models to forecast the future expansion for improving the land …

The rapid growth of India's urban population is one of the key processes affecting economic
and urban development in Asia (Kundu, 2011). Studies of India's urban transition often …

Geoinformatics is today used extensively for managing the rapidly growing urbanization of
our cities and villages. Growing urban areas increasingly encroach on the surrounding rural …

An effective and efficient planning of an urban growth and land use changes and its impact
on the environment requires information about growth trends and patterns amongst other …

The introduction of the Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) policy in 1991 made India one of the
fastest growing economies in the world. This has had a profound effect on India's …

Several factors contribute to on-going challenges of spatial planning and urban policy in
megacities, including rapid population shifts, less organized urban areas, and a lack of data …

Urban settlements and their connectivity will be the dominant driver of global change during
the twenty-first century. In an attempt to assess the effects of URBAN GROWTH on available …

This study presents a hybrid simulation model that combines logistic regression and cellular
automata-based modelling to simulate future urban growth and development for the city of …

In the cities of developing countries like India, rapid and uncontrolled urbanization has been
taking place due to continuous population growth in last few decades. As a result, land …

The population settlements in the fast-growing urban world need to be monitored in order to
design a sustainable urban habitat. The remote sensing and GIS are considered as an …