Land planning buildability in the urban area based on geotechnical data, satellite images and gis/rs technics: a case of setif city, algeria

Abstract

The research work presented in this thesis is part of the works¨ land planning buildability in the urban area based on geotechnical data, satellite images and GIS/RS technics¨The rapid buildup and extension of cities today takes mainly, loose, unstable mobile and periurban farmland for new construction. Moreover, new settlements are planned to surround Setif, at 8 to12 km from the chief-town limits, this development negatively affected the sustainability of construction and the ring of farmland between them and the central city. As our aim is to help developing a sustainable urban planning, we seek to produce a Suitability/ buildability maps for a safer construction site selection, which needs to be decided in the planning stage based on not only the diachronic monitoring of the construction evolution with RS/GIS technology but also on in-site geotechnical investigation and laboratory tests to determinate the soil parameters and to derive the subsurface -characteristics in order to predict soil and/or rock behavior and to compute the soil bearing capacity.