Title :
Analysis of LULC changes and urban expansion of the resort city of Al Ain using remote sensing and GIS
Author :
Issa, S.M. ; Al Shuwaihi, A.
Author_Institution :
Geol. Dept., U.A.E. Univ., Al-Ain, United Arab Emirates
Abstract :
Remote sensing data integrated with GIS techniques were used together with socio-economic data in a post-classification analysis to map the spatial dynamics of land use/cover changes and identify the urbanization process in Al Ain resort city, United Arab Emirates. Land use/cover statistics, extracted from Landsat Multi-spectral Scanner (MSS). Thematic Mapper (TM) and Enhanced Thematic Mapper plus (ETM +) images for 1972. 1990 and 2000 respectively, revealed that the built-up area has expanded by about 170.53km2. The city was found to have a tendency for major expansion in four different directions: North, North-east, southeast, and south-west. GIS overlay analysis of multi-temporal satellite data helped us tracking the different classes´ trajectories by adopting a GIS coding system unique to each class.
Keywords :
geographic information systems; geophysical image processing; image classification; socio-economic effects; terrain mapping; vegetation mapping; AD 1972; AD 1990; AD 2000; Al Ain resort city; ETM + imaging; GIS coding system; Landsat multispectral scanner; MSS imaging; United Arab Emirates; enhanced thematic mapper plus; geographic information system; land cover mapping; land use mapping; post-classification analysis; remote sensing; socioeconomic data; spatial dynamics; urban expansion; urbanization process; Cities and towns; Land surface; Measurement; Remote sensing; Satellites; Urban areas; Vegetation mapping; Al Ain; GIS; LULC; multi-temporal satellite images; urban expansion;
Conference_Titel :
Analysis of Multi-temporal Remote Sensing Images (Multi-Temp), 2011 6th International Workshop on the
Conference_Location :
Trento
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-1202-9
DOI :
10.1109/Multi-Temp.2011.6005094
