Intensity and spatial pattern of urban land changes in the megacities of Southeast Asia

Land Use Policy

Volumn 48, Issue , 2015, Pages 213-222

  Estoque, Ronald C ^a   Murayama, Yuji ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Diffusion coalescence; Intensity analysis; Land change; Land use; Megacity; Urbanization

Indexed keywords

GIS; LAND USE CHANGE; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; MEGACITY; POLICY DEVELOPMENT; REMOTE SENSING; SPATIAL PLANNING; URBAN GROWTH; URBAN PLANNING; URBANIZATION;

BANGKOK; CENTRAL REGION [THAILAND]; KRUNG THEP MAHANAKHON; NATIONAL CAPITAL REGION; PHILIPPINES; THAILAND;

EID: 84935877436     PISSN: 02648377     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2015.05.017     Document Type: Article

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