UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
Santa Barbara
" The Use of Remote Sensing and Geographic Information System
Technologies to Dtect, Monitor, and Model Urban
Change in. Riyadh .
Saudi Arabia ".
Nasr
Abdulhamid Al-Sahhaf
(2000)
ABSTRACT The city of Riyadh , the
capital city of the Kingdom
of Saudi Arabia , has
undergone tremendous urban growth in the last half century. Fueled by social,
economic, and political considerations, population and resource usage has grown
at a pace that threatens to strain both the resources and the local and
regional infrastructure required to support such growth. This dissertation
examines the potential of remotely sensed data analyzed with other geospatial
data in a geographic information systems (GIS) context to provide information
that can be employed by policy makers and persons involved in making decisions
concerning the future of urban development in the city of Riyadh . The dissertation research found and
recovered a large number of extant aerial images of the city of Riyadh and subjected these to a rigorous
photo-interpretation process that characterizes the evolving land uses in the
city of Riyadh .
The results were compared with an official land use map prepared from other
sources, and correlated with available population estimates and water usage.
Comparisons revealed the superiority of remotely sensed data to accurately
capture land usage, and to reveal the growth patterns that drive resource
consumption and degradation of environmental qualities. Classical models of
urban structure including the Islamic City model were contrasted with the urban
growth pattern in Riyadh
in an attempt to capture the dynamics of growth of the city from the turn of
the century to the present. Remotely sensed data has in the past been vastly
underutilized in guiding urban development in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia .
But new satellite imaging and GIS analysis systems have the spatial resolution
and capability to more accurately and economically acquire land use data than by
any other means. This dissertation demonstrates the value of these technologies
and recommends their adoption in a new spatial data infrastructure initiative
for the Kingdom.
شركة الصفرات لجلى البلاط بالرياض
ردحذفشركة الصفرات لتسليك المجارى بالرياض
شركة الصفرات لمكافحة الحشرات بالرياض
شركة الصفرات لرش المبيدات بالرياض
شركة الصفرات لمكافحة الصراصير بالرياض
شركة الصفرات لكشف التسربات المياه بالرياض
شركة الصفرات لنقل الااثاث بالرياض
شركة الصفرات لتخزين الااثاث بالرياض
شركة الصفرات لتنظيف الفلل بالرياض
ردحذفشركة الصفرات لتنظيف المجالس بالرياض
شركة الصفرات لتنظيف المنازل بالرياض
شركة الصفرات للتنظيف بالرياض
شركة الصفرات لتنظيف الموكيت بالرياض