Delineation of Urban Center Area Based on Remote Sensing Data 1Irland Fardani, 2Albertus Deliar, 2*Anjar Dimara Sakti
1Doctoral Program in Geodesy and Geomatics Engineering, Faculty of Earth Science and Technology, Institut Teknologi Bandung, Bandung, 40132, Indonesia
2Center for Spatial Data Infrastructure, Bandung Institute of Technology, Bandung 40132, Indonesia
Abstract
The delineation of urban areas in Indonesia is determined by the government. However, in practice, the boundaries of these city areas do not conform to the existing delineation. The influence of population and economic activity variables sometimes causes urban areas to not conform to the predetermined delineation of city areas, better known as the urban sprawl effect. The purpose of this study is the urban sprawl effect of Makassar City. The methodology used in this study is the Degree of Urbanization (DoU) using a remote sensing data approach. This method uses two main data sets: population data and building data. The results of this study identified the urban center area of Makasar City, which is an expansion due to the urban sprawl effect. It was found that the influence of Makassar City has expanded far beyond the existing urban area delineation.
Keywords: Urban center, remote sensing, urban sprawl, population.
