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 areinfluential forces changing land use in metropolitan areas. The current work determined temporal and spatial alterationin built-up area, agriculture land, barren land and water area by using Landsat imageries of Faisalabad city from 2003to 2017.The supervised classification technique has been performed on all the images to produce the land use changemaps using the maximum likelihood algorithm and accuracy assessment of the classification has been performed. It hasbeen concluded maximum increase of built-up land were from 30% in 2003 to 50% in 2017 whereas the maximumdecrease in agriculture land class has been observed from 36% of 2003 to 10% in 2017. Urban population of Faisalabadcity has increased from 2 million in 1998 to population statistics reached up to 3.2 million in 2017. Faisalabad 3rdlargest city of Pakistan facing lot of issues due to urban expansion, analyzing the reasons and penalties of land usechanges facilitate local government and urban planners for the better management of future plans regarding the urbansettlements and reduce the negative consequences.