Assessing housing growth when census boundaries change

International Journal of Geographical Information Science

Volumn 23, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 859-876

  Syphard, Alexandra D ^a   Stewart, Susan I ^b   Mckeefry, Jason ^a   Hammer, Roger B ^c   Fried, Jeremy S ^d   Holcomb, Sherry ^a   Radeloff, Volker C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b NORTH CENTRAL RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

^c OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d PACIFIC NORTHWEST RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Census boundary; Housing density; Interpolation; Land use land cover change; MAUP; US Census

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY; CENSUS; HOUSING; INTERPOLATION; LAND COVER; LAND USE CHANGE; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPATIAL DATA;

NORTH AMERICA; OREGON; UNITED STATES;

EID: 70349729868     PISSN: 13658816     EISSN: 13623087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13658810802359877     Document Type: Article

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