Analytical Study on Urban Expansion Using the Spatial and Temporal Dynamics of Land Use Change in Faisalabad City, Pakistan

Abstract

Urban expansion and unparalleled rural to urban conversion, along with an enormous population growth are influential forces changing land use in metropolitan areas. The current work determined temporal and spatial alteration in built-up area, agriculture land, barren land and water area by using Landsat imageries of Faisalabad city from 2003 to 2017.The supervised classification technique has been performed on all the images to produce the land use change maps using the maximum likelihood algorithm and accuracy assessment of the classification has been performed. It has been concluded maximum increase of built-up land were from 30% in 2003 to 50% in 2017 whereas the maximum decrease in agriculture land class has been observed from 36% of 2003 to 10% in 2017. Urban population of Faisalabad city has increased from 2 million in 1998 to population statistics reached up to 3.2 million in 2017. Faisalabad 3rd largest city of Pakistan facing lot of issues due to urban expansion, analyzing the reasons and penalties of land use changes facilitate local government and urban planners for the better management of future plans regarding the urban settlements and reduce the negative consequences.