Characterizing urban sprawl using remote sensing and a simple spatial metric for a medium-sized city in Japan

International Journal of Geoinformatics

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 43-50

  Noda, Akiko ^a   Yamaguchi, Y ^b  

^a JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGE ANALYSIS; LANDSCAPE PLANNING; MAPPING; REMOTE SENSING; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; URBAN GROWTH; URBAN PLANNING;

AICHI; ASIA; CHUBU; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HONSHU; JAPAN; TOYOHASHI;

EID: 67649718117     PISSN: 16866576     EISSN: 26730014     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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