SUSTAINABILITY ASSESSMENT OF COIMBATORE CITY BY REMOTE SENSING AND GIS

Sustainability assessment is a very crucial task which is necessary to be computed for every region in order to
understand the development of any region. Sustainability is the horizon which all departments are focusing in this
generation. If sustainability left unconsidered the world is expected to face an environmental catastrophe. The assessment of
sustainable development is necessary for every developed and developing nation. This can be made feasible using the remote
sensing and GIS technique. The sustainability development depends on various factors among which the natural resources
play a vital role. The importance of natural resources in sustainability development is discussed in this paper. The temporal
satellite imagery of Coimbatore city has been obtained in order to analyze the sustainable development of Coimbatore city.
The major classes of natural resources have been extracted from the land use / land cover map and sustainability based on
natural resources has been assessed. From the results obtained it is well understood that the sustainability of the city has been
decreasing yearly to a certain extent