CRITERIA OF A SATELLITE TOWN

A suitable site for a satellite town must have required criteria’s or involved facilities and attributes that will enable the town to be isolated so that there is no unacceptable lack to the city people it is operating. Criteria for site selection of a satellite town include natural physical characteristics as well as socioeconomic, land-use and ecological factors. Optimum land utilization of human being includes the survivality, and sustainable development. Preferable selection of suitable sites for satellite town been normally carried by traditional approaches i.e. meeting it at all types of town facilities and vacant land in or around the main city. Beside these before taking any decision to make use of the land in respect of its suitability for the intended purpose. Therefore , site suitability of is a prerequisite domain of inquiry , which could facilitate the process of decision making as the suitability of the land for its moist beneficial use. The Geographical Information System (GIS) can provide an opportunity to integrate field parameters with population and other relevant data or other associated features, which help in selection of sites. Site selection procedures can benefit from the appropriate use of GIS. The use of GIS in selection process will reduce the time and enhance the accuracy. This study is designed to carry out a site suitability analysis for the establishment of a satellite town in Khulna district adjacent to Khulna City Corporation (KCC) area. The central assumption is that the natural environmental characteristics render the site more suitable disposition than the other sector. It is also assumed that it is possible to interpret environmental data to determine such suitability based on specific environment and other objectives, standard and design principles. Arc info and Arc view software have been used for digitizes, data collection and data interpretation of different KCC maps for selecting suitable site for satellite town in Khulna district. GIS techniques were put into use for virtually all environmental analysis, are also employed for this work at different stages.