26. Establishing Relationships of Cellular Communication Coverage Provided by Governmental and Non-governmental Companies as a Function of Digital Elevation, Population Density, and Transport Infrastructure in Jodhpur District, Rajasthan

With recent unplanned development and steep human population density increase in Jodhpur District during 2010–2019, spectral congestion can be an impending problem. The article emphasis lies in the analysis of coverage calculated based on Okamura–Hata model with respect to several distinct parameters. Jodhpur city, lying on the Vindhyan porous plateau (with high water management potential), has the highest density of mobile towers in the district. Mobile towers installed by government communication companies are mostly across the rustic champaign. These are distributed with relatively uniform density. Most of the district is characterized by negative normalized difference vegetation indices and low slopes confirming desert (Thar Desert) climate. Therefore, population density, railway routes, road infrastructures and townships are major parameters, which define cellular tower installations. Governmental company-based tower installations account for less than 20% of the non-governmental cellular tower installations. Coverage of the governmental towers is much higher than those of non-government cellular tower installations in terms of land surface area. WebApp Builder in ArcGIS is utilized to present this scenario which hereat provides an opportunity to perform design, development and planning of future cellular tower installations.