2004 UC Proceedings Abstract
 Urban Slum Monitoring Track: Sustainable Development and Humanitarian Affairs Author(s): Jan Turkstra, Martin Raithelhuber One of the Millennium targets is to 'achieve significant improvement in lives of at least 100 million slum dwellers, by 2020'. To monitor progress on this target a first step is to develop an operational definition to identify slum settlements. The indicators selected are: access to water and sanitation, sufficient living area, a house with durable material on a non-hazardous location and with tenure security. This paper describes a methodology to identify slums at the sub-city level in different regions of the world. For each of the five indicators different data sets are identified, which includes the use of high-resolution satellite images. GIS models are presented to integrate the different indicators. The donation of 1,000 GIS packages by Esri to UN-Habitat and the methodology described in this paper are facilitating the use of GIS software for slum monitoring for cities in developing and transition countries. Jan Turkstra UN-Habitat Global Urban Observatory P.O.Box 30030 Nairobi 00100 KE Phone: +254 20 623665 Fax: +254 20 623080 E-mail: jan.turkstra@unhabitat.org Martin Raithelhuber UN-Habitat Global Urban Observatory P.O.Box 30030 Nairobi 00100 KE Phone: 254 20 623665 Fax: 254 20 623080 E-mail: martin.raithelhuber@unhabitat.org |
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