Predicting land-cover and land-use change in the urban fringe A case in Morelia city, Mexico

Landscape and Urban Planning

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 271-285

  López, Erna ^a   Bocco, Gerardo ^a,c   Mendoza, Manuel ^a   Duhau, Emilio ^b  

^a INSTITUTO DE MATEMÁTICAS   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA METROPOLITANA   (Mexico)

^c NONE   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Land cover and land use change; Landscape; Markov models; Mexico; Urban growth

Indexed keywords

CULTIVATION; FORECASTING; LAND USE; LANDFORMS; MARKOV PROCESSES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS (GIS);

URBAN PLANNING;

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPH; GIS; LAND COVER; LAND USE CHANGE; SUBURBAN AREA; URBAN GROWTH;

MEXICO; MICHOACAN STATE; MORELIA;

EID: 0035838970     PISSN: 01692046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-2046(01)00160-8     Document Type: Article

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