CRITICAL EVALUATION OF URBAN LANDSCAPES BASED ON SPATIAL METRICS IN AN INDIAN CITY - A CASE STUDY

Urban sprawl is becoming a serious challenge to growth, particularly in the developing nations. As a city's population and activities expand, the city boundary extends to accommodate growth at its urban fringes, resulting in fragmented urban morphology. In the current study, Landsat time-series data is used to analyse the urban growth and its pattern from 1995 to 2022 for Bhopal, the capital city of the Madhya Pradesh state of India. The spatiotemporal dynamics of urbanisation is analysed along with the various spatial metrics. Visualizing past trends and growth patterns allows planning authorities to effectively plan for essential infrastructure facilities such as water, electricity, and sanitation, catering to the needs of the growing population.