Design and Implementation of a Temporal Gis For Monitoring the Urban Land Use Change

摘要

Urban areas are the scene of considerable growth and transformation processes which result in the conversion of land for rural to urban use and in secondary transfromations from one urban use to another. In the cities of developing the worled such land use change processes can be bothn formal or informal and they are often also very rapid. Information systems, which can deal effectively with the spatial, tepeoal and contexxtural data pertaining to land use change are required. This paper is an attempt to provide a simple and easy to handle tool for urban planners to store and analyse sp[atio-temporal land use data more efficiently by implementing a Temporal GIS (TGIS). PC ArcInfo is one of the commonly used PC based GIS, which has been used to implement the space time composite model for TGIS, integrated with Object Oriented and Event and Evidence data type concepts.