Urban Sprawl and Adverse Impacts on Agricultural Land: A Case Study on Hyderabad, India
by
Murali Krishna Gumma 1,*
, Irshad Mohammad 1, Swamikannu Nedumaran 1, Anthony Whitbread 1 and Carl Johan Lagerkvist 2
Murali Krishna Gumma 1,*, Irshad Mohammad 1, Swamikannu Nedumaran 1, Anthony Whitbread 1 and Carl Johan Lagerkvist 2
1
Remote sensing/GIS Lab, Innovation Systems for the Drylands Program (ISD), International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), Patancheru-502324, India
2
Department of Economics, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, 75007 Uppsala, Sweden
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Remote Sens. 2017, 9(11), 1136; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs9111136
Received: 19 September 2017 / Revised: 2 November 2017 / Accepted: 3 November 2017 / Published: 7 November 2017
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Remote Sensing of Urban Agriculture and Land Cover)
Many Indian capitals are rapidly becoming megacities due to industrialization and rural–urban emigration. Land use within city boundaries has changed dynamically, accommodating development while replacing traditional land-use patterns. Using Landsat-8 and IRS-P6 data, this study investigated land-use changes in urban and peri-urban Hyderabad and their influence on land-use and land-cover. Advanced methods, such as spectral matching techniques with ground information were deployed in the analysis. From 2005 to 2016, the wastewater-irrigated area adjacent to the Musi river increased from 15,553 to 20,573 hectares, with concurrent expansion of the city boundaries from 38,863 to 80,111 hectares. Opportunistic shifts in land-use, especially related to wastewater-irrigated agriculture, emerged in response to growing demand for fresh vegetables and urban livestock feed, and to easy access to markets due to the city’s expansion. Validation performed on the land-use maps developed revealed 80–85% accuracy.
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Keywords:
peri-urban; urban sprawl; urban agriculture; bi-spectral plots; urban land-use/land-cover change; IRS-P6; MODIS; Landsat-8; Hyderabad
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Gumma, M.K.; Mohammad, I.; Nedumaran, S.; Whitbread, A.; Lagerkvist, C.J. Urban Sprawl and Adverse Impacts on Agricultural Land: A Case Study on Hyderabad, India. Remote Sens. 2017, 9, 1136.
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