Urban Energy Systems

10Sustainable Urban Planning and Sprawl Assessment Using Shannon’s Entropy Model for Energy Management

Pranaya Diwate¹, Priyanka Patil², Pranali Kathe² and Varun Narayan Mishra³*

¹University Department of Basic and Applied Sciences, MGM University, Aurangabad, India

²Centre for Climate Change and Water Research, Suresh Gyan Vihar University, Jaipur, India

³Amity Institute of Geoinformatics & Remote Sensing (AIGIRS), Amity University Uttar Pradesh (AUUP), Gautam Buddha Nagar, Uttar Pradesh, India

Abstract

Land use/land cover (LULC) changes are one of the most crucial factors for analyzing the unprecedented rate of urban sprawl. Most regions around the world are facing negative consequences due to rapid growth in urban areas and population. Thus, the urban sprawl assessment is vital for different planning and management activities. Understanding the process and patterns of urbanization will be helpful for the current and future development scenarios of a region. This will also further be beneficial for different problem-solving purposes, i.e., to know the availability and potential of solar energy resources. In the present study, temporal remote sensing datasets of the years 1990, 2000, 2010, and 2020, along with secondary data, were used for detecting LULC changes in Gandhinagar district, India. Supervised classification of the images was conducted to derive LULC maps. The total classification accuracies were found to be around 80%, 87%, 86%, and 80% for classified maps of 1990, ...