Quantifying the degree-of-freedom, degree-of-sprawl, and degree-of-goodness of urban growth from remote sensing data

Applied Geography

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 96-111

  Bhatta, B ^a   Saraswati, S ^a   Bandyopadhyay, D ^a  

^a JADAVPUR UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Degree of goodness; GIS; Howrah; Kolkata; Remote sensing; Urban growth; Urban sprawl

Indexed keywords

GIS; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE IMAGERY; URBAN AREA; URBAN GROWTH; URBAN PLANNING;

ASIA; CALCUTTA; EURASIA; INDIA; SOUTH ASIA; WEST BENGAL;

EID: 70649095191     PISSN: 01436228     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeog.2009.08.001     Document Type: Article

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