A Prediction of Future Land UseLand Cover in Amman
A Prediction of Future Land UseLand Cover in Amman
A Prediction of Future Land UseLand Cover in Amman
Abstract
The paper aims to analyze land use/land cover (LULC) changes in western part and the populated
area of Amman governorate and to identify the process of urbanization and urban expansion
within the study area for the period of 1984-2014. It also aims to predict future LULC map for the
year 2030 using Markov Model to provide city planners and decision makers with information
about the past and current spatial dynamics of LULC change and strictly urban expansion towards
successful management and better planning in the future. Images from Landsat 5-TM for the years
1984, 1999 and from Landsat 8-OLI for the year 2014 were used to investigate LULC within the
study area during 1984-2014 and the resulted LULC maps in 1999 and 2014 were used to predict
future LULC map based on Markov Model. The results indicated that the urban/built up area ex-
panded by 147% during the period from 1984 to 2014 and predicted to expand by 43.9% from
2014 to 2030 based on Markov model predictions. The areas in the western, northwest and
southwest parts of Amman as well as the areas of Marka and Uhud, the northeast of the study area,
were predicted to witness the major urban expansion in 2030. And these are the areas where city
planners and decision makers should take into consideration in future plans of Amman. The urban
expansion was mainly attributed to the high population growth rate and large number of immi-
grants from neighboring countries and other socio-economic changes.
Keywords
Land Use/Cover Change, Markov Model, GIS, RS, Amman
1. Introduction
The entire world is continuously experiencing rapid urbanization [1] that leads to a variety of urban-related en-
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vironmental and socio-economic issues. Urbanization, caused by population growth, will lead to inward urban
growth (intensification) and outward urban growth (sprawl) [2]. These processes inevitably result in Land Use/
Land Cover (LULC) change which has great impacts on both natural ecosystems and human systems [3] [4].
Therefore, monitoring and detecting urban growth and its resulting LULC change are critical to planners, gov-
ernment agencies, hydrologists, ecologists, and so on. With the development of remote sensing and GIS tech-
nologies, reliable change detection results can be obtained.
Urban growth mainly comes as a result of population growth and frequent human activities, such as industria-
lization, migration from rural to urban areas and resettlement [1] [5], leading to LULC changes and landscape
pattern alteration at local and regional scale [6]-[10]. Such changes can include losses of agriculture areas, water
bodies, forest and other vegetated green spaces and non-vegetated fields [2] [6] [9]-[11], and can result in vari-
ous urban issues by increasing population density, housing condition, education, employment, public facilities
accessibility, infrastructure sufficiency, and quality of life and so on, which are important socioeconomic issues
accompanying urban expansion [5] [10] [12] [13].
Amman city, the capital of Jordan, is one of the cities that is experiencing a rapid urbanization as a result of
its population’s natural growth and migration from the neighboring countries as well as from other cities and ru-
ral areas of Jordan. The result of this was an unplanned expansion of Amman’s urban area, which caused many
problems. Thus, predicting future built up area is an important issue in order for future urban planning of the
city.
With the free access to the USGS Landsat archive and development of remote sensing techniques, detecting
urban growth pattern (intensification or sprawl) and LULC change dynamics with temporally high frequent da-
tasets become possible. Since the Landsat 1 was launched in 1972 as the first land-surface observation satellite,
satellite data have been widely used for urban area analysis. Landsat archive data with longest record and global
coverage allowed a great number of studies to detect long-term LULC change and urban expansion. With the
Landsat archive data being open access, detecting long-term change dynamics is the trend of change detection
analysis of complex systems. Numerous change detection methods were applied in previous studies. The most
widely used method is Post Classification Change Detection (PCCD) method which can generate thematic map
for each date and provide specific “from-to” change information. The key factor of producing high quality
change detection results is producing accurate individual thematic map.
Additionally, the prediction of future LULC in an area is very important process that provides urban planners
and decision makers with the growth rates and the direction of urban expansion. This can help in planning for
the needed public services and infrastructure in the future.
In this regard, Markov model is an application of change detection that can be used to predict future changes
in one area based on the rates of past change in the area. The method is based on probability that a given piece
of land will change from one mutually LULC to another. These probabilities are generated from past changes
and then applied to predict future change [14]. The general procedures of using Markov Change Detection
Techniques (MCDT) are: first to create a transition matrix of pixels in each class for two time periods—this is
basically the same as the cross-tabulation matrix that can be used for accuracy assessment. The main diagonal of
the matrix contains pixels that have not changed, while other cells contain pixels that have changed. The next
step is to generate probabilities of change between classes. This is accomplished by dividing each cell value by
its row total. The result is the probability that a given class in date 1 will convert to another class in date 2 out of
all possible changes [15].
The aim of this paper is to detect and reveal urban growth and LULC change dynamics in Amman, an area of
observed high population growth in the past five decades, from 1984 to 2014 using GIS and remote sensing (RS)
and to predict the future map of LULC in Amman. The objectives of this study can be specified as follows:
• To analyze LULC change dynamics of Amman from 1984 to 2014.
• To predict the future LULC in the area in 2030 focusing on the development of the built up area of Amman
using Markov model.
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3827.7 km2 (and constitutes 50% of the total area of Amman governorate). The population of Amman is ap-
proximately 2529 thousand people which accounts for 38.7% of Jordan’s population (as estimated at the end of
2013 by the Department of Statistics, 2014) [16]. It is situated at the middle of the country as part of the middle
region and next to Zarqa city, the third largest city in terms of population, forming together a metropolitan re-
gion in the middle of Jordan. The old city of Amman occupied seven hills or “Jabals” around the Wadi “Ras el
Ain” which flows north-east from a plateau toward the River Zarqa basin. The original central part of the city
has an altitude of between 725 and 800 meters. Expansion of Amman in the past 30 years has resulted in the
occupation of some 19 hills in total and altitudinal extension to above 900 meters [17]. The topography of the
city consists of a series of steep hills and deep and, sometimes, narrow valleys. Whilst initial development was
principally on the upper slopes and crests and the lower slopes of this hill-valley system, the upsurge in urban
development over the last sixty years has involved extensive development on the frequently steeper mid-slope
locations [17].
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3. Methodology
3.1. Materials and Methods
The population data of the study area since 1952 was taken from surveys (for many years) and census data (for
the years 1952, 1961, 1979, 1994 and 2004) provided by the Department of Statistics of Jordan. The estimation
of population in Amman before 1952 was collected from other scientific research.
Landsat 5-TM for the years 1984, 1999 and Landsat 8-OLI for the year 2014 images were acquired for this
study, as they provide an appropriate and cost-effective source of information for a wide range of applications,
including land change mapping. Images (data sets) were obtained from the United States Geological Survey
(USGS) (http://glovis.usgs.gov/), having a ground resolution element of 30 × 30 m, the images were then subset
to the border of the study area. Figure 2 shows the flowchart of this study.
The images of Landsat TM and Landsat OLI include different bands with different wavelengths as shown in
Table 1.
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Table 1. Specification for satellite images bands, wavelengths and acquisition date.
Image specification
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No Class Description
1 Built-up area Includes all residential, commercial, and industrial development.
2 Agriculture and Forest land All forest vegetation types including evergreen, deciduous, and wetland forest vegetation types.
3 Rangeland Includes all vegetation features that are not typical of forest, including shrub like vegetation features.
4 Barren land Barren or sparsely vegetated areas most often representative of bare earth or soil.
(
FX X ( tn +1 ) ≤ xn +1 X ( tn ) = xn , X ( tn −1 ) = xn −1 , X ( t1 ) = FX ( X ( tn +1 ) ≤ xn +1 ) X ( tn ) = xn ) (1)
where: tn is the present time so that tn+1 represents some points in the future and t1, t2, ···, tn−1 represent various
points in the past. Based on the present data, future is independent of the past. In other words, future of random
process depends neither on where it is now nor where it was.
If the Markov chain is expressed by X[k], and the states is {x1, x2, x3, ···}, then the probability of transition
from the state i to the state j in one time instant is;
(
Pi , j Pr X [ k=
+ 1] [k ] i
j X= ) (2)
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early 1940s, with the city extending over 2.5 km2 by 1947 [21]. In 1948, urban expansion increased to 4.123
km2, due to the first wave of migrants of Palestinians, as a result of the foundation of the state of Israel, who
moved to Jordan in general and to Amman in particular. The refugees were mainly accommodated in five hastily
prepared camps. Two of these were sited in Amman, namely Al Hussein camp in the north of the city and Al
Wehdat camp in the south [20] [21]. As a result of such migration and the strong internal migration from rural
areas and other cities to Amman, the population growth rate of the city has always been higher than that of Jor-
dan as a whole, standing at 9.6% in the 1950s whereas the population rate at the national level has never ex-
ceeded 4% [21]. The spatial expansion during the 1950s took the form of “climbing the hills and mountains”
that surrounded the urban core as noted above. Planning at this stage didn’t attempt to guide or regulate urban
growth and development.
Population size of Amman has dramatically increased to reach 250 thousand in 1952 soon after the Arab-
Israeli conflict in 1948 [22]. The second major wave of refugees arrived in Amman after 1967 war between
Israel and the three Arab states of Egypt, Syria and Jordan. Khadhim and Rajjal (1988) noted that this conflict
sent Amman into “another spiral of uncontrolled growth” [23], where the city’s population increased from 350
thousand before the conflict to around half a million shortly after it. The population of the city was estimated at
600 thousand in 1974 and increased to 777.8 thousands in 1979, with the city extending over an area of 101 km2
as a result of the second large scale Palestinian migration combined with additional refugees from Lebanon after
the Civil War in 1975 [20].
Rapid urban growth in the city of Amman has greatly increased the expansion of the built up area during the
period of 1984 to 1999. In 1994, the population of Amman has reached 1,307,017, representing an increase of
54.6% since last census in 1979 according to Population and Housing Census conducted in 1994. The urban ex-
pansion was estimated to be 150.764 km2 in 1996 [20]. This expansion was due to the Gulf war in 1991, where
about 400 thousand of refugees from Jordanian and Palestinian origins came back from Kuwait and other Gulf
countries and settled in Amman. Therefore, Jordan in general, and Amman in Particular, has suffered from the
problems of unemployment, poverty and foreign debt, which can be directly related to the third wave of refugees
in 1991. With the situation worsened by the economic crisis in 1989 that led to a decline in the value of the Jor-
danian Dinar that also pushed more people from rural area and small cities to move to Amman.
The urban expansion continued to reach 162.924 km2 in 2002 [20], and the population growth of Amman
has also increased to some 1,726,713 inhabitants amounted to 33.8% of Jordan’s population according to the
Population and Housing Census which took place in 2004 after the creation of the geographically wider Great-
er Amman Municipality (GMA) area. However, due to the invasion of Iraq in 2003, the population has contin-
ued to grow at a phenomenal rate and the population of Amman was estimated at 2.17 million in 2007 which
equals almost 40% of the national population. In March 2007, the Ministry of the Interior estimated that there
was as many as 1.4 million Iraqi nationals were living in Amman [21]. The number of Iraqis has decreased to
around 500 thousand, but there are no reliable statistics concerning their number. In addition, thousands of
construction workers from Egypt and Syria used to live in the city at that time, but again there are no reliable
statistics concerning their number especially that some of them used to work seasonally then go back to their
countries.
The population of Amman was estimated at 2,528.5 thousands in 2013 by the Jordanian Department of Statis-
tics [16]. Urban expansion had increased by 2013 due to three factors; first, the government’s decision in 2007
to merge five additional areas into the GMA, which resulted in an expansion of the area of Amman. The second
factor was the enforced Iraqi migration in 2003 due to the Third Gulf War, with most refugees settling in Am-
man. The final factor is the current migration of Syrian refugees, which began in 2011 and still continuing.
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N ∑ X ii ∑ i i ( X i + * X + i )
r r
k ==2i 1 =
N − ∑ i =i ( X i + * X + i )
r
where: r is the number of rows in the confusion matrix; Xii is the number of observation in row i and column I;
Xi+ is the total number of observation in row I; X+i is the total number of observation in column I; and N is the
total number of observation included in matrix.
Tables 3-5 show the confusion (error) matrices resulting from the classified digital data. For TM-1984 land
use/cover map, a total of 185 pixels were selected and were then checked with a reference to 1:50,000 topograph-
ic maps. The results show an overall accuracy of 86%. In terms of the producer’s accuracy and user’s accuracy,
Table 3. Confusion matrix of the signatures derived from Hyper-classification training of Landsat TM-1984.
Reference data
Classified data 1 2 3 4 Row Total User Accuracy (%)
1 42 0 4 1 87 89.4
2 0 40 7 2 49 81.6
3 1 3 36 1 41 87.8
4 2 3 1 42 48 87.5
Column Total 45 46 48 46 185
Producer’s Accuracy (%) 93 87 75 91 overall Kappa Index = 0.82
Note: Number of pixels correctly classified = 160; overall classification accuracy = 86%; class 1 = Agriculture Land & Forest Land;
class 2 = Built-up Land; class 3 = Rangeland; class 4 = Barren Land.
Table 4. Confusion matrix of the signatures derived from Hyper-classification training of Landsat TM-1999.
Reference data
Classified data 1 2 3 4 Row Total User Accuracy (%)
1 67 4 6 0 77 87.0
2 6 31 0 1 38 81.6
3 6 2 33 3 44 75.0
4 3 10 12 80 105 76.2
Column Total 82 47 51 48 264
Producer’s Accuracy (%) 82 66 65 95 overall Kappa Index = 0.72
Note: Number of pixels correctly classified = 211; overall classification accuracy = 80%; class 1 = Agriculture Land & Forest Land;
class 2 = Built-up Land; class 3 = Rangeland; class 4 = Barren Land.
Table 5. Confusion matrix of the signatures derived from Hyper-classification training of Landsat 8-OLI-2014.
Reference data
Classified data 1 2 3 4 Row Total User Accuracy (%)
1 55 0 11 4 70 78.6
2 0 61 0 2 63 96.8
3 3 2 50 8 63 79.4
4 0 5 1 39 45 86.7
Column Total 58 68 62 53 241
Producer’s Accuracy (%) 95 90 81 74 overall Kappa Index = 0.80
Note: Number of pixels correctly classified = 205; overall classification accuracy = 85%; class 1 = Agriculture Land & Forest Land;
class 2 = Built-up Land; class 3 = Rangeland; class 4 = Barren Land.
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all classes were above 80% accept for Rangeland class with producer’s accuracy of 75%. Kappa index of
agreement was 82% (Table 3). This value indicates that the classification process avoided 82% of the error.
For TM-1999 land use/cover map, a total of 274 pixels were selected and were then checked with a reference
to 1:50,000 topographic maps. The results show an overall accuracy of 80%. In terms of the producer’s accura-
cy, all classes were above 65% and above 75% in terms of user’s accuracy. Kappa index of agreement was 72%
(Table 4). This value indicates that the classification process avoided 72% of the error.
For Landsat 8-OLI-2014 land use/cover map, a total of 241 pixels were selected and were then checked with a
reference to 1:50,000 topographic maps. The results show an overall accuracy of 85%. In terms of the produc-
er’s accuracy, all classes were above 74% and above 78% in terms of user’s accuracy. Kappa index of agree-
ment was 80% (Table 5). This value indicates that the classification process avoided 80% of the error.
Finally, overall accuracy of more than 80% for the three maps (1984, 1999 and 2014), indicate that this is
good evidence that the image processing approach adopted in this study has been effective in producing com-
patible land use/cover data over time.
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Table 6. Area estimates and the overall amount of change in LULC for the study area.
Table 7. Transnational probability matrix derived from the LULC map of 1999 and 2014.
Eary-2014/Later-2030 Built-up area Agriculture & Forest land Rangeland Barren land
Built-up area 0.7465 0.1600 0.0738 0.0198
Agriculture & Forest land 0.1339 0.5792 0.2657 0.0212
Rangeland 0.0959 0.3181 0.5156 0.0704
Barren land 0.0192 0.0444 0.2663 0.6702
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Figure 4. Predicted land use/cover change from Ca-Markov Modeling for the year 2030.
LULC Classes Built-up area Agriculture & Forest land Rangeland Barren land
2
Area in km 406.8891 718.7931 1197.0369 1498.1931
2030
Area in percentage 10.7 18.8 31.3 39.2
expected [16]. This increase in population will result in an increase in built up area as predicted in this study.
Therefore, urban planners of Amman should takes this into consideration and set their plans for the expected
new urban areas.
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where, So represents the mean of the Sij ’s (observed values) and Se represents the mean of the Sˆij ’s (pre-
dicted values). R2 values range between zero and one. The closer the value of R2 is to one the better, since a
value of one shows an exact correspondence between the observed and predicted values, whilst a zero value re-
flects no correspondence.
To calibrate Markov model, two maps of LULC in the study area for the years 1984 and1999 were used in
order to create the 2014 LULC map in the study area using Markov model (see Figure 5). For validation, the
resulted LULC for 2014 as created by Markov was compared to the observed 2014 LULC of the study area. The
results of R2 value showed a high performance of Markov model and its prediction of 2014 LULC, with R2
equals 0.886. The model has underestimated the built up area in 2014 and predicted it at 6.1% of the study area
compared to the observed 2014 map of LULC which showed that the percentage of the built up area was 7.4%
of the study area. This can be due to the changes in Amman’s population which increased quickly as a result of
receiving high number of Iraqi refugees in 2003 after the invasion of Iraq and receiving high number of Syrian
refugees due to the current crisis in Syria, as well as the internal migration from other Jordanian cities and small
towns to Amman. This clearly had an impact on the land use in the city, and the built up area increased as a re-
sult.
The model predicted the built up area of Amman to increase by another 124 km2 during 2014-2030 as noted
above. Figure 6 shows the development of the built up area within the study area during 1984-2030. From the
figure, it can be easily seen the areas in the study area that are predicted to be converted to a built up areas in
2030 based on Markov model predictions. Five locations were highlighted in the figure as they will witness an
urban expansion in 2030. These are: ShafaBadran, Al-Jubeihah and Tareq in the northwest of the study area,
Naour in the southwest, the areas of Wadi As-Seer & Badir Al-Jadeedah & Marij Al-Hamam, and Umm Quseir
in the west of Amman, and Finally, Marka and Uhud in the northeast of the study area.
It can be noticed that the built up area takes radial direction around the center of the study area or linear direc-
tion along the highways as it is found in previous research that the existence of road networks encourages urban
expansion to take place along road networks [21] [27].
5. Conclusions
It is necessary to have information about LULC patterns change over time not only for urban planning purposes,
but also for improving the management of the use of land resources [27]. This study has demonstrated the im-
portance of using GIS and RS GIS techniques to produce accurate LULC maps and change statistics for the
western and populated part of Amman’s governorate, which is valuable to monitor urban expansion effectively
over a time.
The results of LULC change detection of the study area showed that built-up area covered 114.7 km2 in 1984,
191.1 km2 in 1999 and 282.8 km2 in 2014 or 3%, 5% and 7.4% of the study area respectively. This represents a
net increase of 168.1 km2 in 30 years, which is mainly attributed to the rapid increase in population due to large
migration from neighboring countries and internal migration from other Jordanian cities and small towns. Dur-
ing the period of 1984 to 1999, there was a decrease in both the Agricultural lands and Rangeland, which were
converted to urban areas due to population growth and to Barren land due to the dry season of 1999, while from
1999 to 2014 the urban expansion as well as Agricultural land and Rangeland increased toward bare lands.
However, urban sprawl had increased during the same period, which was considered as a key indicator that ur-
ban planning strategy should be given more attention. The preprocessing stage, such as the geometric correc-
tions of multi-temporal satellite images as well as using the same classification scheme, is very important to en-
hance the accuracy of the results. In this study, the accuracy of the maps was satisfactory. It confirmed that the
image processing procedures were effective in producing land use/cover maps from the Landsat image, which
were fairly compatible to those produced from high resolution data. The study took advantage of remote sensing
and GIS techniques that were crucial for dealing with the dynamics of LULC change in the study area over the
study period.
The second part of the paper deals with the use of the GIS-based Markov model for predicting future LULC
change within the study area in 2030. The model was first calibrated using the 1984 and 1999 satellite images of
the study area to predict the LULC in 2014. The resulted map of predicted LULC in 2014 was then validated
against the 2014 observed LULC map using one of the goodness-of-fit statistics. The results of R2 value calcula-
tion between the predicted and observed LULC map of the study area in 2014 showed high performance of the
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Figure 5. Observed Land use/cover change in 2014 versus the predicted for the same year in Amman.
model in simulating the future LULC change within the study area with R2 value of 0.886. However, the actual
urban expansion in the study area was higher than the predicted expansion by Markov model due to the rapid
population growth as discussed above.
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Figure 6. Built up area changes during (1984-2014) and the predicted built up area in 2030 of the stdy area.
The model predicted an increase of 124 km2 in the built up area of Amman during 2014-2030 and five loca-
tions to witness a clear urban expansion in 2030 mainly in the north, west and southwest of current built up area
as discussed before.
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