Geospatial Technology for Efficient Urban Planning: Case of Kanpur City

Indian metropolitan cities are experiencing an accelerated pace of growth since independence. 42.6 percent of the urban dwellers are residing in 53 million plus cities. This has created opportunities for the urban planners, professionals and technologists to develop and guide the planned development and management. The increasing demand in urban planning and management has required the correct spatial information which is important for the implementation of planning and developmental activities. The present study demonstrates the role of remote sensing and GIS in generating geo-database for the city analysis at micro level. Kanpur city is selected as study area, which is one of the largest urban agglomerations of Uttar Pradesh million cities. High resolution of Cartosat-1 (PAN image), LISS-IV (MX) satellite, Census Data, Toposheets at scale of 1:50,000, Municipal Corporation map of Kanpur city 2005-06 and Kanpur City Development Plan, 2006 and online Google Earth have been used for meaningful analysis.