Estimate the Urban Landscape Dynamics in Balichak Census Town, West Bengal, for Integrated Spatial Monitoring

Abstract

Mainly the countries of rapidly growing economies have experienced the unceasing, unplanned and unsystematic transformation from physical environment of rural areas into the cultural milieu of urban areas over the modern eras. The escalation of anthropological activities within the metropolitan vicinity has been directed for serving the altered drill of land use within and outside of metropolitan area with mark effects of ecosystem. Urban sprawling can be identified by continuous urban growth. Balichak is one of the emerging forms of census town in terms of economic activities, settlement, transport and administrative centre in Paschim Medinipur District. This present attempt tried to estimate the spatio-temporal alterations of urban land use dynamics at Balichak census town where the land use and cove pattern are altering vigorously. It is crucial to include the various indicators liable to vigorous practice and create complex relationships among them in order to achieve the sustainable development. In this concern, some technologies and tools such as geospatial modelling and system dynamics framework as well as perception survey of local residents suggest sufficient prospects in spatial and temporal aspects to understand quantify and monitor the urban dynamics. Operation research approaches and multi-agent system approaches have been able to apprehend the dynamism of the landscape alterations scheme and also be treated as a convenient tool to predict the potential upcoming alterations. Therefore, this study tried to measure the accelerating difficulties of sprawling in Balichak area with the incorporation of remotely sensed techniques and Geographical Information System methods to efficiently consider, appraise and evaluate the different strategy formulation for maintaining the sustainability and integrated spatial monitoring of this unplanned growth of urban landscape.