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Unplanned and unorganised urbanisation is one of the main problems of the develo** countries. Demarcation and analyses of spatio-temporal characteristics of the urban bodies is one of the important criteria for their future planning and providing basic as well as specific amenities. To fulfil this, a systematic analysis of land use and land cover of different urban areas is required, which has not been done in the Indian context. So, the main aim of this paper is to calculate the built-up area and analysis of the trend of development of some major cities in West Bengal with the help of multi-temporal satellite images. After collecting freely available satellite images from the USGS, different types of remote sensing indices (RSI) have been calculated, namely, Normalised Difference Built-Up Index (NDBI), Normalised Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Enhanced Built-Up and Bareness Index (EBBI) and Built-Up Index (BUI). Results show that the growths of built-up area were in unplanned manner and with resultant growth occurred due to a particular factor. In case of Kolkata, horizontal integration of this area is less than vertical integration, and new built-up area is extended towards the Salt Lake-Newtown. On the other hand, Durgapur city was spreading towards the western side, and it is expected that within a few years’ time, the span of the cities of Durgapur, Raniganj and Asansol will be expanding like the earlier cities. The huge growth was also noticed in the Siliguri Municipal Corporation area in the last decade. It is expected that this expansion may lead to create different socio-economic and environmental problems like distribution of basic amenities, public place i.e. parks, retail, transit, freshwater supply, etc. across the cities.
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Paul, R.K., Patra, P. (2021). Spatio-Temporal Transformation of Urban Built-Up Areas for Sustainable Environmental Management in Selected Cities of West Bengal. In: Rukhsana, Haldar, A., Alam, A., Satpati, L. (eds) Habitat, Ecology and Ekistics. Advances in Asian Human-Environmental Research. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-49115-4_8
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