Landsat analysis of urban growth: How Tokyo became the world's largest megacity during the last 40years

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 127, Issue , 2012, Pages 210-222

  Bagan, Hasi ^a   Yamagata, Yoshiki ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Change detection; Grid cells; Landsat; Population census; Urban growth; Urbanization

Indexed keywords

CHANGE DETECTION; GRID CELLS; LANDSAT; POPULATION CENSUS; URBANIZATION;

CELLS; CYTOLOGY; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; LANDFORMS; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION STATISTICS; REMOTE SENSING; SURVEYS; URBAN GROWTH;

SPATIAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT;

AGRICULTURAL LAND; CENSUS; DATA SET; DETECTION METHOD; GIS; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; IMAGERY; LAND COVER; LANDSAT; MAP; MEGACITY; POPULATION DENSITY; SOCIOECONOMIC CONDITIONS; URBAN GROWTH;

HONSHU; JAPAN; KANTO; TOKYO [KANTO];

EID: 84866942974     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2012.09.011     Document Type: Article

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