The present paper highlights a comparative study between Kolkata and Haora Municipal Corporation on the basis of urban issues urban growth and urban sprawl. This study aims to quantify the urban sprawl and growth using some statistical techniques and GIS and Remote Sensing techniques. In this study built-up area of Kolkata and Haora is derived from three temporal satellite imageries on which several statistical techniques like Shannon Entropy, Weights of Evidence and Pearson's Chi-Square Method are applied to analyze the urban growth and sprawl. The result shows overall increasing urban sprawl for the city of Kolkata and Howrah with time.
Urban growth, urban sprawl, shannon entropy, weights evidence, chi-square method
