Master Plan of a Campus: Challenges and a way through Remote Sensing and GIS

A small area of about 10 sq. km. over a low plateau surface is mapped in detail to prepare a master plan of a university campus. There were a few challenges to be met; they are, uneven topography, existing uses, structures, network of roads and paths, high tension power lines, forest cover and trees to be preserved and wild animals to be given right of passage. Remote sensing data of high resolution was used to map the status of surface cover in all its detail including the locations of individual trees and steel pylons of high tension power lines and all the outputs including the master plan was made on ArcGIS platform. On site measurements for details of outlines of buildings and their compounds around, were also part of the methodology adopted.A small area of about 10 sq. km. over a low plateau surface is mapped in detail to prepare a master plan of a university campus. There were a few challenges--uneven topography, existing uses and structures, network of roads and paths, high tension power lines, forest cover and trees to be preserved and right of passage to wild animals to be protected--to be met. Remote sensing data of fine resolution was used to map the status of surface cover in all its detail including the locations of individual trees and steel pylons of high tension power lines and all the outputs including the master plan was made on ArcGIS platform. On site measurements, for details of outlines of buildings and their compounds around, were also part of the methodology adopted.