Facility management for the state of Sikkim: developing a prototype for Gangtok as a smart city using geospatial techniques
Student name: Mr Siddham Gaur
Guide: Dr Chander Kumar Singh
Year of completion: 2015
Host Organisation: TERI University
Abstract: The role of GIS and Remote Sensing is crucial for the development of facility management service in any urban centre due to the increasing complexity and spatial arrangements. Planning process and Policy making requires a scientific and practical approach for the optimum utilization of resources. To understand it appropriately utilities are classified as public and private based on its functionality. Primary data collection in the form of POI’s with high accuracy enhances the capability of GIS and produces much more significant results. Remote sensing data of Landsat 8 with spatial resolution of 30 m along with ASTER DEM with spatial resolution of 30m was used to examine the landscape. Road data and census data was used to evaluate the relationship between the population and the accessibility to the facilities. Euclidian’s distance was computed to evaluate the distances, pattern and spatial arrangement of utilities under different categories. MCDA was used to consider different criteria’s for generating the safe site availability of educational institutes in Gangtok. AHP was considered for assigning weights to different criteria’s depending upon the importance which was given by expert opinion and ground realty and to judge the decision consistency ratio was calculated which is considered appropriate if the value is less than 0.1 and consistency ratio was 0.02 was appropriate to develop the study by assigning weights to the thematic layers. 16 new educational sites were proposed in different wards for planned expansion of infrastructure in the near future.
Keywords: FMS, Euclidian’s distance, MCDA, AHP, GIS, Site suitability analysis
