SITE SUITABILITY ANALYSIS FOR URBAN DEVELOPMENT USING GIS BASE MULTICRITERIA EVALUATION TECHNIQUE IN NAVI MUMBAI, MAHARASHTRA, INDIA

During the planning of urban area economic and social factor are considered. Future growth of economic depends on infrastructure development and utility. Finding an appropriate site for development in the hilly area facing the problem and difficulty for planning as well as implementation. Appropriate site analysis is providing the sure skeleton for conducting various development, particularly in the rising and falling ground associated with the hills with helping of geographic information system and multicriteria evaluation technique to find an appropriate site for development in Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. In this process of site selection, some thematic maps layers are prepared using ArcGIS software. Site selection Standards use for analysis such as slope, land use /land cover map, road proximity, digital elevation, flood map and rainfall map. Category weight is given according to importance and maps were converted into raster. In weights, overlay method gives all importance to each category then process to preparation site suitable selection map for development. Using all maps prepare site suitable selection map is created. It is essential for designing spatial analysis map for taking any decision relating to development in which remote sensing facilitate important role. This study is useful for the planner, public, other agency for planning project and implementations in the area.