Investigation of Land Use in Residential Areas of Ub City using High Satellite Images

The aim of this study is to demonstrate the use of very high resolution RS images for a detailed residential urban study in Mongolia. For this purpose, five areas representing the existing residential land use classes are selected in different locations of Ulaanbaatar city. For the analysis, SPOT 5 and Quickbird images are used and different image enhancement techniques are applied. The analysis was carried out using Erdas Imagine 8.6 installed in a PC environment.