Monitoring urban sprawl around Barcelona's metropolitan area with the aid of satellite imagery

International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences - ISPRS Archives

Volumn 35, Issue , 2004, Pages 285-290

  Roca, J ^a   Burns, M C ^a   Carreras, J M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^b Mancomunitat de Municipis de l'Àrea Metropolitana de Barcelona   (Spain)

Author keywords

Application; Planning; Remote Sensing; Satellite; Urban

Indexed keywords

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY; ANTENNAS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; POPULATION STATISTICS; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

BARCELONA; FUNCTIONAL RELATION; HIGHER RESOLUTION; METROPOLITAN AREA; METROPOLITAN REGIONS; SATELLITE IMAGES; URBAN DEVELOPMENT; URBAN SPRAWL;

URBAN GROWTH;

EID: 77954877795     PISSN: 16821750     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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