Methodology for identifying urban growth potential using land use and population data: A case study of Islamabad Zone IV

Procedia Environmental Sciences

Volumn 2, Issue , 2010, Pages 32-41

  Adeel, Muhammad ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Future growth potential; GIS weighted overlay; Islamabad; population centre; population density; visual image interpretation

Indexed keywords

GIS WEIGHTED OVERLAY; GROWTH POTENTIAL; ISLAMABAD; POPULATION CENTRE; POPULATION DENSITY; VISUAL IMAGE INTERPRETATION;

ECOSYSTEMS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INFORMATION SCIENCE; LAND USE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

POPULATION STATISTICS;

EID: 79951791418     PISSN: None     EISSN: 18780296     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1016/j.proenv.2010.10.006     Document Type: Conference Paper

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