Analysis of landscape transformation processes in and around four West African cities over the last 50 years

Landscape and Urban Planning

Volumn 105, Issue 1-2, 2012, Pages 94-105

  Brinkmann, Katja ^a   Schumacher, Jörg ^a   Dittrich, Andreas ^a   Kadaore, Ibrahim ^b   Buerkert, Andreas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KASSEL   (Germany)

^b AGRHYMET Regional Centre for Agronomy   (Niger)

Author keywords

Corona; Landsat; Satellite image classification; Urban and peri urban agriculture; Urbanisation

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ROBOTS; DEFORESTATION; EXPANSION; IRRIGATION; LAND USE; POPULATION STATISTICS; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SURFACE WATERS; URBAN PLANNING;

CORONA; LANDSAT; SATELLITE IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; URBAN AND PERI-URBAN AGRICULTURES; URBANISATION;

METADATA;

AGGLOMERATION; AGRICULTURAL LAND; CORONA; DEMOGRAPHIC SURVEY; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; IRRIGATION SYSTEM; LAND DEGRADATION; LAND USE PLANNING; LANDSAT; PERIURBAN AREA; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SAVANNA; URBAN AGRICULTURE; WATER AVAILABILITY;

WEST AFRICA;

JOTURUS PICHARDI;

EID: 84857439301     PISSN: 01692046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2011.12.003     Document Type: Article

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