Use of RS and GIS for land use/land cover of historical badami town, Bagalkot district, India

Abstract

India is one of the biggest countries and is 7th largest nation in the world; also India is 2nd country in population next to China. The Towns are like trees, both of them grow under natural limits. One of the objectives of any master plan is to guide town development by studying the natural properties of the town border and to determine a suitable direction of town growth. It should include general information for understanding the effective factors on the town’s form. This report is mainly concentrated towards the historic Badami town development to prepare an accurate land use/land cover map on 1:21,000 scale appropriate allocation of land resources of the Badami A need for GIS driven analysis of factors such as urban planning, which in turn create various types of geo-referenced data, GIS was carried out to create, store, edit, visualise, analysis, and to present the data needed for carrying out the allocation of land for meeting various needs of the smart city.After the implementation of the Smart concepts desirable results have obtained and these outputs have the potential to fulfil the need of all the inhabitants without causing any pollution. The outputs of this project would help in sustainable planning to existing town.