Improving the Slum Planning Through Geospatial Decision Support System
In India, a number of schemes and programmes have been launched from time to time in order to promote integrated city development and to enable the slum dwellers to gain access to the basic services. Despite the use of geospatial technologies in planning, the local, state and central governments hav...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Copernicus Publications
2014-11-01
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| Series: | The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences |
| Online Access: | http://www.int-arch-photogramm-remote-sens-spatial-inf-sci.net/XL-2/99/2014/isprsarchives-XL-2-99-2014.pdf |
| Summary: | In India, a number of schemes and programmes have been launched from time to time in order to promote integrated city
development and to enable the slum dwellers to gain access to the basic services. Despite the use of geospatial technologies in
planning, the local, state and central governments have only been partially successful in dealing with these problems. The study on
existing policies and programmes also proved that when the government is the sole provider or mediator, GIS can become a tool of
coercion rather than participatory decision-making. It has also been observed that local level administrators who have adopted
Geospatial technology for local planning continue to base decision-making on existing political processes. In this juncture,
geospatial decision support system (GSDSS) can provide a framework for integrating database management systems with analytical
models, graphical display, tabular reporting capabilities and the expert knowledge of decision makers. This assists decision-makers
to generate and evaluate alternative solutions to spatial problems. During this process, decision-makers undertake a process of
decision research - producing a large number of possible decision alternatives and provide opportunities to involve the community in
decision making. The objective is to help decision makers and planners to find solutions through a quantitative spatial evaluation and
verification process. The study investigates the options for slum development in a formal framework of RAY (Rajiv Awas Yojana),
an ambitious program of Indian Government for slum development. The software modules for realizing the GSDSS were developed
using the ArcGIS and Community -VIZ software for Gulbarga city. |
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| ISSN: | 1682-1750 2194-9034 |