Proceedings of the 12th INDIACom; INDIACom-2018; IEEE Conference ID: 42835

2018 5th International Conference on “Computing for Sustainable Global Development”, 14th - 16th March, 2018

Globe Quick bird data by image wrapping technique and the
same ensures a good amount of accuracy.
The final stage of the image classification process is
accuracy assessment which evaluates the classification
algorithm and also determines the error level that might be
contributed by the image (Congalton,1991; Manisha et
al.,2012). Thus the classification results of SVM were
assessed using overall accuracy and kappa Index and the
same shows an overall accuracy of 80.28% and 79.71% for
LS ETM+ 2001 and LS OLI 2015 images respectively and
the kappa coefficient of 0.73 for LS ETM+2001 and 0.71 for
LS OLI 2015 images. Subsequently, the derived results were
also manually correlated with the high resolution Digital
Globe Quick bird data by image wrapping technique and the
same ensures a good amount of accuracy.
were classified into three categories namely high (>150%),
medium (100%-105%) and low ( <100%). Thus amongst 65
wards, 34 wards (2, 3, 5, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 16, 17, 18, 19,
20, 21, 23, 24, 25, 28, 29, 34, 44, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52,
54, 55, 56, 57, 59 and 61) fall in the high category, 7 wards
(58, 42, 45, 64, 41, 4, 26 and 46) in the medium and 24
wards (22, 39, 32, 60, 6, 63, 31, 15, 33, 40, 7, 8, 37, 65, 43,
62, 1, 35, 36, 53, 30, 27, 9 and 38) in the low category.
Based on the same, urban sprawl index map was prepared
(Fig.5).

III. RESULTS AND DISCUSSIONS

A. Ward-wise Urban Sprawl

The SVM classified LULC map shows that the study area
comprises features like agriculture land, plantation, fallow
land, waste land, water bodies and build up land in both the
years. From the visual comparison of LULC maps
(Fig.3a&b), an increase in the built up land is witnessed
during the year 2015. In order to analysis quantitatively, the
urban pixels from the above LULC maps were extracted and
exported into separate raster maps using Arc GIS 10.2
software (Fig.4a&b). In the 2001 image (Fig.4a), the urban is
represented by 19241 pixels while 2015(Fig.4b) by 34464
pixels. Subsequently, the pixels count was converted into
area by multiplying them with their respective spatial
resolution (30 * 30 meters). The same shows that during year (a)
2001, the Tiruchirappalli Corporation comprises around
17.32 sq.km of urbanized area whereas during 2015 the
urban area was around 31.20 sq.km and thus an increase in
the urban extent was inferred. Further, when compared to
2001 image (Fig.4a), in 2015 image (Fig.4b) an uneven;
more linear, sporadic and discontinuous pattern is witnessed.
Especially in the eastern part of the corporation, the sprawl is
exhibiting a linear pattern, while in the middle and the
northern parts a concentric pattern is seen. On contrary, in
the western and the southern parts, the sprawl is exhibiting a
sporadic pattern. Thus, the above qualitative inference
indicates that the urban growth are highly uneven in the
corporation.
In general, planning and execution of infrastructure and
other developmental activities within the corporation limits
are carried out at micro-level. Since, ward is the smallest
administrative boundary as far as the corporation is
concerned, the ward-wise is essential for implementation of
any developmental activities. Accordingly, the ward map
prepared earlier (Fig.1) was converted into raster image
using vector to raster tool in Arc GIS 10.2 software and
integrated with above urban maps separately. Then the aerial
extent of urban in each ward was calculated for the years
2001 and 2015 (Table-2) and subsequently the percentage of (b)
increase were worked out. The perusal of the Table-1 shows Fig. 4. Map showing urban sprawl during (a) 2001 and (b)
that the percentage of increase in sprawl varies from 22 % to 2015.
430%. Based on the increase in their percentage, the wards

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