Population growth and its expression in spatial built-up patterns: The sana'a, yemen case study

Remote Sensing

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1014-1034

  Zeug, Gunter ^a   Eckert, Sandra ^b  

^a JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Population growth; Remote sensing; Urban built up; Urbanisation; Yemen

Indexed keywords

BUILT-UP AREAS; CENSUS DATA; DATA SETS; DENSITY CHANGE; MOUNTAIN RANGES; OPTICAL SATELLITES; POPULATION CHANGE; POPULATION DENSITIES; POPULATION GROWTH; SATELLITE DATA; SPATIAL PATTERNS; THRESHOLDING; TOPOGRAPHIC MAP; URBAN BUILT-UP; URBAN GROWTH; URBANISATION; VECTOR DATA; YEMEN;

GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MAPS; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REMOTE SENSING; URBAN PLANNING; USER INTERFACES;

POPULATION STATISTICS;

EID: 84860389331     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs2041014     Document Type: Article

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