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International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, Volume XXXIX-B8, 2012 
XXII ISPRS Congress, 25 August — 01 September 2012, Melbourne, Australia 
MONITORING ENVIRONMENT WITH GIS FOR PART OF 
THIRUVALLUR TOWN USING CARTOSAT 1 STEREO, PAN & 
RESOURCESAT LISS 4 MSS MERGED DATA. 
Ghouse Shaik Mohamed!” Ramakrishnan Venugopal Venkatchalam®, Mahendran.Ramamurthhy*, 
Radhika Janakiraman Gummidipoondi^*, Murthy Ramillah? 
!Director Research,ghouse967 Ghotmail.com,9444055967, # Asst Proff ” vvramkee2k@yahoo.co.in, sofimahe@yahoo.conr 
4*mradhi S0@email.com, Sri Venkateswara college of Engineering Technology, Thirupachur Thiruvallur, Anna University, 
Chennai, Deputy Director. murtyramillah@yahoo.com ,National Remote sensing Centre, Department of Space,Hyderabad, India, 
VIII/2: Health 
KEY WORDS: Environment, Thiruvallur, Population, Health GIS, Cartosatl ,Resourcesatl LISS4 
ABSTRACT: 
Thiruvallur town is about 44 km from Chennai in Tamil nadu state of India with a population of 130000 , covering 
10.75 sq km area. It is about 2km from Sri Venkateswara College of Engineering and Technology. It was Taluk (Sub 
Division'.s) head quarters and from 1991 it was upgraded as District head quarters after the formation of Thiruvallur District. 
With rapid growth of town the Population density of Thiruvallur has increased in the past three decades from 300 
persons/sq.km in 1951, to 6000 persons/sq.km in 1981 and now it is 12925 persons/sq.km in 2011. The creation of District 
administrative collector office, headquarters offices for police, judicial courts and Tamil Nadu and Federal Government 
development department’s offices, establishment of multinationals major industries like Caterpillar, Kingfishers,Hindustan 
Motors, Mahendra Automobiles, Coco cola, Japanese Glass industry, Korean LOTO etc apart from mushrooming growth of 
about 41 Engineering, Nursing, Education, Medical, Naval, Arts and Science colleges, International Public 
schools,Governmentt, Private schools and Polytechnics added to the population of this Town. It is well connected by National 
Highways and Railways and upgraded as District Municipality. This resulted in urban drainage problem and conversion of 
Agriculture land and lakes for housing, establishment of major Govt and Private Hospitals including special units for Eye 
care, Cardiology, and Health Clinics, pharmacies etc. The effect of urbanization on environment of this once silent rural 
temple town which was supporting intensive agriculture activities , green with paddy fields is studied with high resolution 
satellite data is know the impact on health and environment changes from 2008 to 2011, using 2.5m resolution PAN stereo 
data of Cartosat 1 merged with 5.8 m resolution Multi Spectral data of LISS 4 of Resourcesat 1 of Indian Remote sensing 
satellites and Geo Eye satellite image of 2011 from Google Earth web site for the western part of Thiruvallur Municipality 
Area between North Western Thiruvallur town from the Temple Tank of Sri Veeraragavasamy temple to junction of 
National Highways connecting Thiruvallur to Tirupathi and Thiruvallur- Poondi- Uthukottai at the West. These data are 
used to create environment monitoring GIS to understand the use of High resolution Indian satellite data for local urban 
environmental planning to manage the health and environmental issues. ARC GIS 10 and Lieca photogrammetry software 
are used with satellite data to create different layer for creating GIS on urban infrastructure like houses, public buildings, 
roads, municipal surface drainage net work, underground sewerage drainage net work, drinking water pipe lines net work, 
landfills, solid waste disposal yards, pumping stations, degraded areas, heath services infrastructure, wet lands , low lying 
areas with bushes, abandoned lakes which are the breeding grounds for mosquito's in rainy season, etc These layers are 
correlated with the municipal ward map of this segment of the town. The stereo data of Cartosat 1 is useful for mapping the 
households, roads, agricultural fields, bushy areas, slopes to map the natural drainage of the area and for delineation of 
micro watersheds. When the layer of municipal ward maps are integrated with the GIS the drainage, drinking water lines, 
street names and house numbers etc can be added to the attribute data to make this as a complete Environment 
management GIS. The use of PAN merged data of Cartosat 1 with LISS 4, MSS Resourcesat 1 in natural colour and it's cost 
effectiveness is studied to explain the usefulness of creation of Environment Health GIS. The non stereo Geo Eye latest 
data from Google Earth web site or Cartosat 2 can be used for upgrading the land use changes and identify current 
environmental as on 2011.The study will provide GIS to monitor environmental issues with multi date large scale data for 
Thiruvallur Town. 
1.POPULATION DENSITY out of 640 Districts in India. The district has a population 
density of 1,049 inhabitants per square kilometre 
1.1.Introduction (2,720 /sq mi) . Its population growth rate over the decade 
According to the 2011 census Thiruvallur district has a 2001-2011 was 35.25 %.Thiruvallur has a sex ratio of 983 
population of 3,725,697 comparing the population of females for every 1000 males, and a literacy rate of 83.82 
2,754,756 in 2001 census. It is equal to the nation of %.It occupies an area of 3424 km?.. It is 54.45% urbanized. 
Liberia or the US state of Oklahoma. It is given 70^ rank