APPLICATIONS OF GIS AND RS FOR DETAILED URBAN LAND USE CHANGE STUDIES IN MONGOLIA

The aim of this study is to analyze urban land use changes occurred in central part of Ulaanbaatar, the capital city of Mongolia from 1930 to 2008 with a 10 year interval using GIS and RS data sets. As data sources, large scale topographic maps of 2000 as well as panchromatic and multispectral Quickbird images of 2006 are used. To extract land use information from the Quickbird images, a visual interpretation is applied on the enhanced images. For the database development, spatial analysis and image processing ArcGIS and Erdas Imagine systems installed in a PC environment are used.