Application of convex hull in identifying the types of urban land expansion

Dili Xuebao/Acta Geographica Sinica

Volumn 58, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 885-892

  Liu, Jiyuan ^a   Wang, Xinsheng ^a,b   Zhuang, Dafang ^a   Zhang, Wen ^a   Hu, Wenyan ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

^b WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Anhui; Convex hull; The compactness ratio of urban form; The type of urban land expansion

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; METHODOLOGY; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; URBANIZATION;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST;

EID: 2342470679     PISSN: 03755444     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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