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Spatial growth of informal settlements in Delhi: an application of remote sensing
Description
Slum development and growth is quite popular in developing countries. Many studies have been done on what social and economic factors are the drivers in establishment of informal settlements at a single cross-section of time, however limited work has been done in studying their spatial growth patterns over time. This study attempts to study a sample of 30 informal settlements that exist in the National Capital Territory of India over a period of 40 years and identify relationships between the spatial growth rates and relevant factors identified in previous socio-economic studies of slums using advanced statistical methods. One of the key contributions of this paper is indicating the usefulness of satellite imagery or remote sensing data in spatial-longitudinal studies. This research utilizes readily available LANDSAT images to recognize the decadal spatial growth from 1970 to 2000, and also in extension, calculate the BI (transformed NDVI) as a proxy for the intensity of development for the settlements. A series of regression models were run after processing the data, and the levels of significance were then studied and compared to see which relationships indicated the highest levels of significance. It was observed that the change in BI had a higher strength of relationships with the change in independent variables than the settlement area growth. Also, logarithmic and cubic models showed the highest R-Square values than any other tested models.
Date Created
2011
Contributors
- Prakash, Mihir (Author)
- Guhathakurta, Subhrajit (Thesis advisor)
- Myint, Soe W. (Committee member)
- Aggarwal, Rimjhim (Committee member)
- Arizona State University (Publisher)
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Resource Type
Extent
ix, 82 p. : col. ill., col. maps
Language
Copyright Statement
In Copyright
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Peer-reviewed
No
Open Access
No
Handle
https://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.9111
Statement of Responsibility
by Mihir Prakash
Description Source
Viewed on Feb. 9, 2015
Level of coding
full
Note
Partial requirement for: M.U.E.P., Arizona State University, 2011
Note type
thesis
Includes bibliographical references (p. 80-82)
Note type
bibliography
Field of study: Environmental design and planning
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