The application of remote sensing and geographic information systems was adopted by (Weng, 1999) in Zhujiang Delta, China to evaluate urban expansion where the extracted built up areas were also overlaid to obtain the expansion image. The buffer function in GIS was used to generate a buffer image to show the proximity of the urban expansion to the major roads of the study area. Adeboyejo and Abolade (2006) in Ogbomoso,Nigeria using satellite imageries of three periods to monitor urban expansion of the city. The result shows that urban expansion of the city has destroyed fertile agricultural land which cannot be recovered; the residential landuse continues to spread to and beyond the hitherto distant location relative to the city core. Similarly, Oyinloye (2010) studied the spatial growth of Akure, Ondo State, Nigeria using the satellite imageries of three periods. The result shows that there has been a rapid conversion of agricultural areas to urban (non agricultural) land uses.