A Guide for Sustainable Urban Development of the 21st Century

Using Information and Communication Technologies for Smart and Connected Cities3.5 DHAKA, BANGLADESH -- MONITORING LAND USE AND LAND COVER CHANGE USING REMOTESENSINGWith remote sensing and geographic information systems, planners can better map and managenatural resources and human activity related to land use such as illegal settlements,construction, and encroachment.Photo credit: www.nrsc.gov.inIn an increasingly urbanized world, monitoring and mapping urban growth, and its land-use andland-cover change impacts, are of growing importance in developing countries. Land use/coverchanges due to human activities are often occurring rapidly in developing countries, and it hasbeen projected that by the year 2015, most of the world’s large cities will be in developing22