Urban sprawl analysis and modeling in Asmara, Eritrea

Remote Sensing

Volumn 3, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 2148-2165

  Tewolde, Mussie G ^a   Cabral, Pedro ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b NOVA INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SCHOOL NOVA IMS   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Landuse cover change; Landuse policy; Object Based Image Analysis (OBIA); Urban growth model

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; ANALYSIS AND MODELING; BUILT-UP AREAS; DECISION MAKERS; GEOSPATIAL TOOLS; HIGH POTENTIAL; LAND ALLOCATION; LAND-USE PLAN; LANDUSE POLICY; MODEL VALIDATION; MULTI-LAYER PERCEPTRON NEURAL NETWORKS; OBJECT BASED IMAGE ANALYSIS; POLICY OPTIONS; POTENTIAL MAP; SATELLITE IMAGES; SHANNON ENTROPY; SUSTAINABLE URBAN DEVELOPMENT; URBAN LAND-USE CHANGE; URBAN MODELING; URBAN SPRAWL;

GALLIUM ALLOYS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LAND USE; MARKOV PROCESSES;

URBAN GROWTH;

EID: 84856691381     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs3102148     Document Type: Article

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