Managing urbanisation and urban sprawl in Malaysia by using remote sensing and GIS applications

In the global era, more than half of the world population live in urban area. With rapid urbanisation growth where the highest percentage concentrates in Asia, a relevant approach is needed to eliminate the possible threat that occurs after urbanisation took place; the urban sprawl. Urban sprawl...

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Main Authors: Rosni, Nur Aulia, Hj. Mohd. Noor, Norzailawati, Abdullah, Alias
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Published: Malaysian Institute of Planners 2016
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Hj. Mohd. Noor, Norzailawati
Abdullah, Alias
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Hj. Mohd. Noor, Norzailawati
Abdullah, Alias
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description In the global era, more than half of the world population live in urban area. With rapid urbanisation growth where the highest percentage concentrates in Asia, a relevant approach is needed to eliminate the possible threat that occurs after urbanisation took place; the urban sprawl. Urban sprawl is a popular term in academic discourse and has a long history but until these days, the concrete definition of this term is not yet configured. Many studies of sprawl have rooted back in non-Asian countries making the solution for sprawl is not suitable to be implemented in term of theories and practice. This research attempts to study the measurement of sprawl by using these geospatial indexes with Remote Sensing and GIS approach. The SPOT-5 images with 2.5 meters resolution were used to analyse the growth of sprawl in Kuala Lumpur metropolitan due to its high urbanisation rate. The findings show that Kuala Lumpur is a sprawling city. It is anticipated that this research will provide a new direction in urban sprawl studies and represent a robust analytic approach for characterizing urban development on the city scale at once as well as promoting a city via Remote Sensing and GIS technology.
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spelling iium-514872021-05-27T06:24:21Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/51487/ Managing urbanisation and urban sprawl in Malaysia by using remote sensing and GIS applications Rosni, Nur Aulia Hj. Mohd. Noor, Norzailawati Abdullah, Alias HT51 Human settlements. Communities T Technology (General) In the global era, more than half of the world population live in urban area. With rapid urbanisation growth where the highest percentage concentrates in Asia, a relevant approach is needed to eliminate the possible threat that occurs after urbanisation took place; the urban sprawl. Urban sprawl is a popular term in academic discourse and has a long history but until these days, the concrete definition of this term is not yet configured. Many studies of sprawl have rooted back in non-Asian countries making the solution for sprawl is not suitable to be implemented in term of theories and practice. This research attempts to study the measurement of sprawl by using these geospatial indexes with Remote Sensing and GIS approach. The SPOT-5 images with 2.5 meters resolution were used to analyse the growth of sprawl in Kuala Lumpur metropolitan due to its high urbanisation rate. The findings show that Kuala Lumpur is a sprawling city. It is anticipated that this research will provide a new direction in urban sprawl studies and represent a robust analytic approach for characterizing urban development on the city scale at once as well as promoting a city via Remote Sensing and GIS technology. Malaysian Institute of Planners 2016 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/51487/1/51487.pdf application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/51487/4/51487_Managing%20urbanisation%20and%20urban%20sprawl%20in%20Malaysia_SCOPUS.pdf Rosni, Nur Aulia and Hj. Mohd. Noor, Norzailawati and Abdullah, Alias (2016) Managing urbanisation and urban sprawl in Malaysia by using remote sensing and GIS applications. Planning Malaysia: Journal of the Malaysian Institute of Planners, Special issue IV-2016. pp. 17-30. ISSN 1675-6215 http://www.mip.org.my/doc/apsa2016.pdf
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T Technology (General)
Rosni, Nur Aulia
Hj. Mohd. Noor, Norzailawati
Abdullah, Alias
Managing urbanisation and urban sprawl in Malaysia by using remote sensing and GIS applications
title Managing urbanisation and urban sprawl in Malaysia by using remote sensing and GIS applications
title_full Managing urbanisation and urban sprawl in Malaysia by using remote sensing and GIS applications
title_fullStr Managing urbanisation and urban sprawl in Malaysia by using remote sensing and GIS applications
title_full_unstemmed Managing urbanisation and urban sprawl in Malaysia by using remote sensing and GIS applications
title_short Managing urbanisation and urban sprawl in Malaysia by using remote sensing and GIS applications
title_sort managing urbanisation and urban sprawl in malaysia by using remote sensing and gis applications
topic HT51 Human settlements. Communities
T Technology (General)
url http://irep.iium.edu.my/51487/
http://irep.iium.edu.my/51487/
http://irep.iium.edu.my/51487/1/51487.pdf
http://irep.iium.edu.my/51487/4/51487_Managing%20urbanisation%20and%20urban%20sprawl%20in%20Malaysia_SCOPUS.pdf