The impact of urban growth and long-term climatic variations on the sustainable development of the city of Niamey, Niger

International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)

Volumn 2, Issue , 2005, Pages 1500-1502

  Twumasi, Yaw A ^a   Manu, Andrew ^b   Coleman, Tommy L ^a   Maiga, I A ^c  

^a ALABAMA A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique du Niger   (Niger)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATIC VARIABILITY; GROWTH MANAGEMENT; HUMAN DISTURBANCES; URBAN EXPANSION;

CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEMS; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; REMOTE SENSING; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; WATER QUALITY;

URBAN PLANNING;

EID: 33745713406     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IGARSS.2005.1525411     Document Type: Conference Paper

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