Document Type : Articles
Authors
Surveying Dept, Darbandikhan Technical Institute, Sulaimani Polytechnic University, Darbandikhan- Sulaimani- Iraq,
Abstract
Change in land use and land cover, as one of the most important factors of global-scaled environmental transformations, is considered as heart of the sustainable development debate. It is approved that humans are the main driving force that altering the land cover of the globe. In order to attain substantial development, urban authorities should think of useful tools to monitor how the land is now used to apprise future plan. The apprehension of urban change is crucial for making optimal decision and suitable planning. Satellite remote sensing is known potentially as a powerful way of assessing and mapping land-use/cover change at different spatial and temporal resolution. It also offers lower costs and time than those done using the traditional models. Remote sensing data and techniques are extremely useful because of its flexibility to provide views, repetitive coverage over a single area and real time and near real time data acquisition. land uses change and urban growth in remote sensing compose the analysis of two aerial or satellite image bands of a particular area which is recorded at two different dates. This study aims to a produce urban growth map for the small city of Darbandikhan, in the west of Kurdistan Region-Iraq, using RS-GIS data and techniques integrated with field data from 2003 to 2012. Results revealed that the has town sprawled by 2.7 times, from almost 1.9 km2in 2003 to 5.3 km2 in 2012, mainly to the North and West of the city. During this period population has doubled mainly because of migration from rural to urban area. Developed map shows that the distribution of facilities, except schools, trended to maintain around city center and not well distributed all over the town. It is also resulted that approximately 90% of streets were less than 15m.
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