SITE SUITABILITY ANALYSIS FOR A SATELLITE TOWN OF KHULNA CITY USING GIS: A CASE STUDY

Md. Mujibor  Rahman; Dewan Mohammad  Ershad

doi:10.53808/KUS.2007.8.1.0614-L

Authors

Md. Mujibor Rahman Environmental Science Discipline, Khulna University, Khulna9208, Bangladesh.
Dewan Mohammad Ershad Environmental Science Discipline, Khulna University, Khulna 9208, Bangladesh

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.53808/KUS.2007.8.1.0614-L

Keywords:

Site suitability, satellite town, GIS, DSS and ESS

Abstract

A suitable site for a satellite town must have required criteria’s or involved facilities and attributes that will enable the town to be isolated so that there is no unacceptable lack to the city people it is operating. Criteria for site selection of a satellite town include natural physical characteristics as well as socioeconomic, land-use and ecological factors. Optimum land utilization of human being includes the survivality and sustainable development. Therefore, site suitability of is a prerequisite domain of inquiry, which could facilitate the process of decision making as the suitability of the land for its moist beneficial use. This study is designed to carry out a site suitability analysis for the establishment of a satellite town in Khulna City area. It is also assumed that it is possible to interpret environmental data to determine such suitability based on specific environment and other objectives, standard and design principles. GIS techniques were put into use for virtually all-environmental analysis, are also employed for this work at different stages.

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