Monitoring Dynamics of Sprawling Bhopal “An Emerging Metropolitan”

Abstract

Sprawl refers to the horizontal expansion of the city, from core towards outskirts of the city Data extracted from Landsat imagery was utilized to quantify urban expansion of the Bhopal city with respect to direction and pattern from 1991-2021. A direct relationship between population and built-up area is established, which reflects urban sprawl. Statistical study and spatio-temporal analysis of the data is done to account for these changes. The research revealed that Bhopal City has majorly spread towards south and south-east directions in uncontrolled manner, engulfing used productive cropped areas. Sprawling pattern has evolved from radial to leap-frogging, with time.