Urban growth pattern identification : a case study in Siem Reap, Cambodia

• Author(s): Ourng, Chanvoleak ; Rodrigues, Daniel Souto
• Date: 2012
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/1822/23709
• Origin: RepositóriUM - Universidade do Minho
• Subject(s): Sprawl; Urban pattern; GIS; Rmote Sensing
• Document Type: Conference Object
• Language: English

Description

The main purpose of this paper is to identify the pattern of urban growth from 1993 to 2011 in Siem reap town, Cambodia. Land use and land cover maps were generated from Landsat TM imageries from different years in order to extract the information related to urban sprawl. The settlement pattern theory, geographic pattern analysis and visualisation interpretation were used to detect the pattern of urban growth in Siem Reap. Result shows that from 1993 to 2011 the urban area grew significantly, about 102.51%. The development of core settlement areas in Siem Reap revealed to be concentrated along main roads and along the river in the past and still keeping the same trend in the present. The current pattern of urban settlement in Siem Reap was classified as clustered and linear, following the roads network.