Effects of urban sprawl on agricultural land: A case study of Kahramanmaraş, Turkey

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 158, Issue 1-4, 2009, Pages 471-478

  Doygun, Hakan ^a  

^a KAHRAMANMARAS SUTCU IMAM UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Geographical information systems; Kahramanmara ; Land use change; Remote sensing; Urban expansion

Indexed keywords

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHS; AGRICULTURAL LAND; AGRICULTURAL PRACTICES; BUILDING CONSTRUCTION; COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT; DIGITIZED DATA; ECONOMIC BENEFITS; EXOTIC PLANTS; GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; HIGH RESOLUTION SATELLITE IMAGES; IKONOS IMAGES; LAND MANAGEMENT PRACTICES; LAND PRICES; LAND-USE CHANGE; MONOSCOPIC; MULTISTOREY BUILDINGS; OLIVE GROVE; PAN-SHARPENED; QUICKBIRD IMAGES; RAPID POPULATION GROWTH; SPATIAL CHANGES; URBAN EXPANSION; URBAN SPRAWL; URBANIZED AREA;

ECONOMICS; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; PHOTOGRAPHY; REMOTE SENSING; WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

LAND USE;

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPH; AGRICULTURAL LAND; COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT; GIS; IKONOS; LAND MANAGEMENT; LAND USE CHANGE; PANCHROMATIC IMAGE; QUICKBIRD; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; URBAN DEVELOPMENT;

AGRICULTURAL LAND; ARTICLE; BUILDING INDUSTRY; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMMUNITY PROGRAM; ECONOMIC ASPECT; EXOTIC SPECIES; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; LAND USE; OLIVE; POPULATION GROWTH; REMOTE SENSING; RESIDENTIAL AREA; TURKEY (REPUBLIC); URBAN AREA; URBANIZATION;

AGRICULTURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; TURKEY; URBANIZATION;

KAHRAMANMARAS; TURKEY;

EID: 72349087808     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-008-0597-7     Document Type: Article

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