Monitoring urbanization of Iskenderun, Turkey, and its negative implications

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 114, Issue 1-3, 2006, Pages 145-155

  Doygun, Hakan ^a   Alphan, Hakan ^b  

^a KAHRAMANMARAS SUTCU IMAM UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b CUKUROVA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Environmental pollution; Iskenderun; Monitoring; Remote sensing; Urbanization

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION; PERMANENT MIGRATION; POPULATION GROWTH; URBANIZATION;

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY; AIR POLLUTION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; LAND USE; REMOTE SENSING; SOIL POLLUTION; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; WATER POLLUTION;

URBAN PLANNING;

ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; LAND USE CHANGE; URBAN AREA; URBAN DEVELOPMENT; URBAN POLLUTION; URBAN POPULATION; URBANIZATION;

AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; COASTAL WATERS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; INDUSTRIALIZATION; LAND USE; PHOTOGRAPHY; POLLUTION MONITORING; POPULATION GROWTH; POPULATION MIGRATION; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SOIL POLLUTION; TURKEY (REPUBLIC); URBAN AREA; URBANIZATION; WATER POLLUTION;

ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION; PHOTOGRAPHY; TIME FACTORS; TURKEY; URBANIZATION;

EURASIA; HATAY; ISKENDERUN; TURKEY;

EID: 33645826764     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-006-2524-0     Document Type: Article

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