Regional Analysis and Assessment of Urbanisation Pattern of Bihar Using Open Data from Indian Geoportal- Bhuvan

Abstract

This paper investigates the pattern of land utilisation in Bihar, India using land use and land cover (LULC) data from India’s geo-portal ‘Bhuvan’ which provides semi-classified satellite imagery from Indian earth observation satellites. Bihar shows poor performance in several development indices. Major part of the state's geographic area is under ‘Agriculture’ LULC class and about 7% area is covered with ‘Built-up’ class. Analysis of LULC map presents the status and trend of coverage as well as utilisation of geographical area. Thematic maps prepared using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) identify the spatial pattern of distribution of LULC data. Per capita area of ‘Built-up’ and ‘Urban Built-up’ land cover classes relates to the urbanisation rate of the whole state, i.e. 11.3% for year 2011.