Spatio-temporal modelling of informal settlement development in Sancaktepe district, Istanbul, Turkey

ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing

Volumn 66, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 235-246

  Dubovyk, Olena ^a   Sliuzas, Richard ^a   Flacke, Johannes ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

GIS; Informal settlements; Istanbul; Logistic regression modelling; Spatio temporal analysis

Indexed keywords

GIS; INFORMAL SETTLEMENTS; ISTANBUL; LOGISTIC REGRESSION MODELLING; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

DECISION MAKING; POPULATION STATISTICS; PROBABILITY;

REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

DECISION MAKING; GIS; INFORMAL SETTLEMENT; LOGISTICS; NUMERICAL MODEL; POLICY MAKING; POPULATION DENSITY; PROBABILITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; URBAN PLANNING;

ISTANBUL [ISTANBUL (PRV)]; ISTANBUL [TURKEY]; SANCAKTEPE; TURKEY;

EID: 79951674220     PISSN: 09242716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2010.10.002     Document Type: Article

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