Land development, land use, and urban sprawl in Puerto Rico integrating remote sensing and population census data

Landscape and Urban Planning

Volumn 79, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 288-297

  Martinuzzi, Sebastián ^a,b   Gould, William A ^a   Ramos González, Olga M ^a  

^a USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE LA PLATA   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Land development; Land use; Population census; Puerto Rico; Remote sensing; Urban cover; Urban sprawl

Indexed keywords

CONSTRUCTION EQUIPMENT; ENGINEERING RESEARCH; GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING; IMAGE SENSORS; LAND USE; REMOTE SENSING;

ISLANDS; LAND DEVELOPMENT; POPULATION CENSUS; POPULATION DENSITY; PUERTO RICO; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

URBAN PLANNING;

CENSUS; LANDSCAPE PLANNING; METROPOLITAN AREA; POPULATION DENSITY; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SUBURBANIZATION; URBAN DEVELOPMENT; ZONATION;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; GREATER ANTILLES; PUERTO RICO; SAN JUAN [PUERTO RICO];

EID: 33846701315     PISSN: 01692046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2006.02.014     Document Type: Article

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