Role of Remote Sensing:Creation of Smart Cities in India

As India's population continues to grow more citizens will move to cities. Experts predicted that about 25-30 people migrates every minute to major Indian cities from rural areas in search of better live hood and better lifestyle. It is estimated that by year 2050, the number of people living in Indian cities will touch 843 million. To accommodate this massive urbanization, India need to find smarter way to manage complexities, reduce expense and improve the quality of life. Government of India has allocated 70.6 billion rupees for smart city budget 2014-15. India plan 100 new smart cities and will developed modern satellite town around existing cities under smart city program. Based on "digital city", smart city is widely used in daily live hood, environmental protection, public security, city service and other field. In this paper, the main focus is on recent research and concept of "smart city�, the work summarizes the relationship between 'smart city' & 'digital city' putting forward main contents of application system. This paper describes importance and difficulties of construction of "smart city". Integrated approach to modernize city infrastructure and leverage technology should be made to make city smart. Digital Master Plans have to be dovetailed into city master plan. This work also emphasizes on the use of different dimensions of GIS (Geographic Information System), Remote Sensing (RS), GPS (Global Positioning System). This concept assists in visualizing the complex pattern and relationship that characterized real word planning & policy problem. Visualization of spatial pattern also support change analysis. Such work contributes in monitoring of social indicator. This turn result in improving need assessment for developing smart cities. Smart cities are helpful in improving water management, waste management, safety, transport, energy, healthcare, education.