Karachi is the 7th largest urban agglomeration in the world and the Pakistan’s center of banking, industry, economic activity and trade. The city is a hub of higher education in South Asia.

After the independence of Pakistan, the city population increased dramatically when hundreds of thousands of Muslim Muhajirs from India and from other parts of South Asia came to settle in Karachi.

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Land cover status and change were extracted using very high resolution satellite imagery. Distribution of LU status and change supports understanding patterns of urban growth in spatial context.

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A segment of the Land cover status product.

Results

First chart shows the structure of urban classes in years 2001 and 2014 (100% = Total urban area for given year). Second chart shows relative structure of Land cover flows (100% = total area of changes in AOI). Figure shows relative proportions of land cover changes categorized into so called “land cover flows”.