Investigation of the Impact of Urban Sprawl in Three Sahelian Cities Using Remotely-Sensed Information

International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)

Volumn 2, Issue , 2003, Pages 988-990

  Manu, Andrew ^a   Twumasi, Yaw A ^b   Coleman, Tommy L ^b   Jean Baptiste, Taonda Sibiri ^c  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ALABAMA A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c INERA ^*  (Burkina Faso)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; DATABASE SYSTEMS; IMAGE SENSORS; MAPPING; REMOTE SENSING; URBAN PLANNING; VEGETATION;

URBAN SPRAWL;

LAND USE;

EID: 0242489545     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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