Comparison of LULC Change of Cities Sharing International Boundaries Using GIS and Remote Sensing Detroit and Windsor

Keywords: Land Use Change, Land Cover Comparison, City Population Decline, GIS, Remote Sensing
Session Type: Virtual Paper Abstract
Day: Tuesday
Session Start / End Time: 3/1/2022 02:00 PM (Eastern Time (US & Canada)) - 3/1/2022 03:20 PM (Eastern Time (US & Canada))
Room: Virtual 20

Abstract

Urban land use and land cover (LULC) classification and change analysis has a cumulative effect on understanding the development of human civilization. Today, 3.9 billion people (54 % of the world’s population) reside in urban areas, and this figure is expected to reach 6.3 billion by 2050, with nearly 90 percent of future urban population increases in cities of developing countries (UN, 2015). In this context urban LULC analysis helps to show the spatial expansion of towns and cities.

At present, we see that cities once thrived due to industrialization are facing decay over the past few years especially cities in Midwest and Northeast of USA. The urban core of these cities now has more vacant household than in the history of last 70 years. Facing population decline and urban gentrification resulted in reduction of economic activity. Some cities are dropping in the national ranking as population in the urban central are declines and number of vacant properties are increasing. Land use analysis of these cities has the potential to reveal the trend and cause of such decay.

This paper seeks to analyze two of the cities that are spatially located in the same geographical area. The City of Detroit and the city of Windsor are located on the opposite side of their respective international boundary. This research is interested in observing, how these cities have either different or similar urban conditions with LUCL analysis using GIS and Remote Sensing.