Modelling urban growth evolution and land-use changes using GIS based cellular automata and SLEUTH models: The case of Sana'a metropolitan city, Yemen

Environmental Earth Sciences

Volumn 70, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 425-437

  Al shalabi, Mohamed ^a   Billa, Lawal ^b   Pradhan, Biswajeet ^c   Mansor, Shattri ^c   Al Sharif, Abubakr A A ^c  

^a SANA A UNIVERSITY   (Yemen)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM MALAYSIA CAMPUS   (Malaysia)

^c UNIVERSITY PUTRA MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Cellular automata; GIS; Land use change; Remote sensing; Sana'a; SLEUTH; Urban growth

Indexed keywords

HIGH-DENSITY DEVELOPMENT; IMPACT ON THE ENVIRONMENT; LAND-USE CHANGE; METROPOLITAN CITIES; MODELS CALIBRATIONS; SANA'A; SLEUTH; URBAN GROWTH PATTERNS;

AGRICULTURE; CELLULAR AUTOMATA; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FORECASTING; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; GROWTH RATE; LAND USE; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

URBAN GROWTH;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; AGRICULTURAL LAND; CALIBRATION; CELLULAR AUTOMATON; DECISION MAKING; DEVELOPING WORLD; GEOSTATISTICS; GIS; GROWTH MODELING; LAND USE CHANGE; MODEL VALIDATION; REMOTE SENSING; TIME SERIES; URBAN GROWTH; URBANIZATION;

AMANAH AL ASMAH; SANAA; YEMEN;

EID: 84881662834     PISSN: 18666280     EISSN: 18666299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12665-012-2137-6     Document Type: Article

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