Urban spatial sprawl pattern and metrics in South of Jiangsu Province along the Yangtze River

Dili Xuebao/Acta Geographica Sinica

Volumn 62, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1011-1022

  Ma, Ronghua ^a   Gu, Chaolin ^b   Pu, Yingxia ^c   Ma, Xiaodong ^d   Zhu, Chuangeng ^d  

^a NANJING INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHY AND LIMNOLOGY   (China)

^b TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d JIANGSU NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Fractal dimension; Jiangsu province; Spatial autocorrelation; Spatial sprawl pattern; Urbanization

Indexed keywords

AUTOCORRELATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; GLOBAL ECONOMY; INDUSTRIALIZATION; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; URBAN DEVELOPMENT; URBANIZATION;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; JIANGSU; YANGTZE RIVER;

EID: 38849165238     PISSN: 03755444     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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