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Expeditious and unchecked urban expansion has significantly altered the urban environments. This has warranted the need of understanding, monitoring and analyzing the spatial patterns of urban growth. Relative Shannon Entropy is widely used metrics for assessment of pattern and the extent of urban growth in cities. Thereupon, this research paper pertains to quantify and monitor the patterns and dynamics of urban growth using Relative Shannon Entropy with integration of Geospatial technology in the city of Haldwani, Uttarakhand. In this study, land use land cover maps were extracted using satellite imageries of LISS IV and Sentinel II for 2005-2019 time periods. Subsequently, built-up, road network and the core of the city were extracted from the satellite data for the years 2005, 2008, 2013 and 2019. Eventually, Relative Shannon entropy (RE) was computed with reference to the core and the major roads for 2005-2008, 2008-2013 and 2013-2019 time periods. It has been observed that the obtained RE values exhibits that the pattern of urban growth in the city was a compact in the earlier period (2005), which in due course of time (2019) has changed to a dispersed pattern of urban expansion concerning both the core and the roads of the city. This research work thus enables in understanding the spatio-temporal pattern of urban growth in the city for effective land use planning in the city for sustainable urbanism.