Land-Use Mapping For Kandahar Province

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Land-Use Mapping For Kandahar Province

Kandahar is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan, located in the southern part of the country. It is surrounded by Helmand in the west, Uruzgan in the north and Zabul Province in the east. Its capital is the city of Kandahar, which is located on the Arghandab River. The city is located 457 KM in the southern of Kabul along the Kabul-Kandahar highway. The municipality is located within district four of Shah Bazar. The total area of the city is almost 430 km2 divided into 15 districts and over 1,000 villages. The city population is estimated at around 1.3 million.

SHAHAR has documented existing land uses with superimposed facilities on the approved strategic plan, Master Plan and municipal boundaries for all 13 of the 14 Y3 partner municipalities only Kandahar city is remain due to the security and lack of capacity in their municipality.For preparing an existing land-use map for Kandahar, SHAHAR has tapped Dynamic Vision (DV) to gather the necessary data on-site. The data primarily consisted of the GPS coordinates of public facilities located with municipal boundaries. The coordinates are then entered into an Excel template which were supplied to SHAHAR. The main expectation, therefore, was for the DV to mobilize a team of surveyors to the Municipality of Kandahar to gather those coordinates.

Public facilities are defined as those basic services which cannot be supplied directly to the individual dwelling unit and as a result are utilized away from the individual residential dwelling unit within the public environment and the data collection was based on the following typologies.
The following public facilities is being covered: