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An Investigation of GIS Overlay and PCA Techniques for Urban Environmental Quality Assessment: A Case Study in Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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  • Kamil Faisal

    (Department of Civil Engineering, Ryerson University, Toronto, ON M5B 2K3, Canada
    Department of Geomatics, College of Environmental Design, King AbdulAziz University, P.O. Box 80200, Jeddah 21589, Saudi Arabia)

  • Ahmed Shaker

    (Department of Civil Engineering, Ryerson University, Toronto, ON M5B 2K3, Canada)

Abstract

The United Nations estimates that the global population is going to be double in the coming 40 years, which may cause a negative impact on the environment and human life. Such an impact may instigate increased water demand, overuse of power, anthropogenic noise, etc. Thus, modelling the Urban Environmental Quality (UEQ) becomes indispensable for a better city planning and an efficient urban sprawl control. This study aims to investigate the ability of using remote sensing and Geographic Information System (GIS) techniques to model the UEQ with a case study in the city of Toronto via deriving different environmental, urban and socio-economic parameters. Remote sensing, GIS and census data were first obtained to derive environmental, urban and socio-economic parameters. Two techniques, GIS overlay and Principal Component Analysis (PCA), were used to integrate all of these environmental, urban and socio-economic parameters. Socio-economic parameters including family income, higher education and land value were used as a reference to assess the outcomes derived from the two integration methods. The outcomes were assessed through evaluating the relationship between the extracted UEQ results and the reference layers. Preliminary findings showed that the GIS overlay represents a better precision and accuracy (71% and 65%), respectively, comparing to the PCA technique. The outcomes of the research can serve as a generic indicator to help the authority for better city planning with consideration of all possible social, environmental and urban requirements or constraints.

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  • Kamil Faisal & Ahmed Shaker, 2017. "An Investigation of GIS Overlay and PCA Techniques for Urban Environmental Quality Assessment: A Case Study in Toronto, Ontario, Canada," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 9(3), pages 1-25, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jsusta:v:9:y:2017:i:3:p:380-:d:92170
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