Version 1
: Received: 3 December 2019 / Approved: 4 December 2019 / Online: 4 December 2019 (11:16:24 CET)
Version 2
: Received: 29 January 2020 / Approved: 31 January 2020 / Online: 31 January 2020 (09:58:57 CET)
How to cite:
Abdulkadir, I.; Kumar, J.S.; Noon, M. Ratio of Land Consumption Rate to Population Growth Rate - A Case of Gombe Metropolis. Preprints2019, 2019120047. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints201912.0047.v2
Abdulkadir, I.; Kumar, J.S.; Noon, M. Ratio of Land Consumption Rate to Population Growth Rate - A Case of Gombe Metropolis. Preprints 2019, 2019120047. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints201912.0047.v2
Abdulkadir, I.; Kumar, J.S.; Noon, M. Ratio of Land Consumption Rate to Population Growth Rate - A Case of Gombe Metropolis. Preprints2019, 2019120047. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints201912.0047.v2
APA Style
Abdulkadir, I., Kumar, J.S., & Noon, M. (2020). Ratio of Land Consumption Rate to Population Growth Rate - A Case of Gombe Metropolis. Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints201912.0047.v2
Chicago/Turabian Style
Abdulkadir, I., J. Sathish Kumar and Monica Noon. 2020 "Ratio of Land Consumption Rate to Population Growth Rate - A Case of Gombe Metropolis" Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints201912.0047.v2
Abstract
Demographic and socio-economic developments couple with other requirements to satisfy human needs result in rapid urban expansion sometimes with increasing rate of surface extent greater than the rate of growth of population, that result in continuous sealing of ground surface thereby affecting ecosystem services. This study applied remote sensing toward achieving the progress of SDGs and stage to determine the ratio of the rate of land consumption to the rate of population growth of Gombe metropolis. QGIS 2.18 was used for the image processing and classification analysis for the key Landsat ETM+ (Enhanced Thematic Mapper), Impervious Surface Indices and population data to inform on the urban trend and LCR/PGR for the periods 2000-2005, 2005-2010, and 2010-2015. The result appears that the LCR/PGR for the periods of study show split trends. During 2000-2005 the result shows that the study area expanded outward with LCR/PGR of 1.2. The result also indicate that during 2005-2010, the study area densified with little expansion with the LCR/PGR of 0.8. The result further reveals that during 2010-2015 the LCR/PGR reached 1.8. Pointing that the study area expanded outward with the rate of ground sealing getting high.
Keywords
sustainable development goals; land consumption; population growth; urban area
Subject
Environmental and Earth Sciences, Remote Sensing
Copyright:
This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Commenter: Ishiyaku Abdulkadir
Commenter's Conflict of Interests: Author