Bassam Saleh1* and Samih Al Rawashdeh2 1 Department. of Surveying and Geomatics Engineering., Faculty. of Engineering., Al-Balqa’ AppliedUniversity, Al-Salt 19117, Jordan.
2 Department. of Surveying and Geomatics Engineering., Faculty. of Engineering., Al-Balqa’ AppliedUniversity, Al-Salt 19117, Jordan.
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Urban environments are among the most dynamic systems on earth. Rapid urban expansionnecessitates proper planning to avoid profound negative environmental and socioeconomicimpacts. Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Remote Sensing (RS) technologiesprovide very efficient tools to collect and analyze the information necessary to detect changes inurban areas that conventional surveying technology can't deliver in a timely and cost effectivemanner. GIS and RS techniques were used in this work to locate and estimate the expansion ofurban areas in three Jordanian cities: Amman, Ma'daba and Irbid. Rapid urbanization and industrializationhave caused not only social problems, but also environmental and socioeconomicproblems in most of the Jordanian cities. Aerial photographs and LandSat images were used toidentify urbanized areas and to quantify urban expansion in the above-mentioned cities for periodsdating from 1918 to 2002. The results show a massive urban expansion in these cities. Theurban area of Amman increased from 0.3 km2 in 1918 to 162.9 km2 in the year 2002. The city ofMa’daba expanded from 0.3 km2 to 11.2 km2 in the span of eighty-four years from 1918 to 2002.Meanwhile, the urban area of Irbid increased from 1.8 km2 to 38.2 km2 over a period of almostfifty years from 1953 to 2000. The entrance of war-time refugees and internal migration of Jordaniansover the years constitute the reason for this irregular but magnificent urban growth. Additionally,the study shows that urbanization in these three cities has found concentration nearmajor roads and fertile lands. ABSTRACT
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Urban expansion, Remote Sensing, GIS, Urban Change Detection.
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Saleh, B., Rawashdeh,. S.-A. 2007. Study of urban expansion in jordanian cities using GIS and remoth sensing. International Journal of Applied Science and Engineering, 5, 41–52. https://doi.org/10.6703/IJASE.2007.5(1).41
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