Mining the urban sprawl pattern: A case study on Sunan, China

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Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 6371-6395

  Ma, Ronghua ^a   Gu, Chaolin ^b   Pu, Yingxia ^c   Ma, Xiaodong ^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; Spatial autocorrelation; Sunan, China; Urban sprawl pattern

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPMENT STAGES; JIANGSU PROVINCE; SOCIO-ECONOMIC CHANGE; SPATIAL AUTOCORRELATIONS; SUNAN, CHINA; URBAN SPRAWL; URBANIZED AREA; YANGTZE RIVER DELTA;

AUTOCORRELATION; FRACTAL DIMENSION;

URBAN GROWTH;

EID: 55249115170     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s8106371     Document Type: Article

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