Change analysis of land use/land cover and modelling urban growth in Greater Doha, Qatar

Annals of GIS

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 233-247

  Hashem, Nadeem ^a   Balakrishnan, Perumal ^b  

^a QATAR UNIVERSITY   (Qatar)

^b Qatar University   (Qatar)

Author keywords

land use; LULC change analysis; Qatar; urban growth modelling

Indexed keywords

CENSUS; LAND COVER; LAND USE CHANGE; MODELING; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION GROWTH; URBAN AREA; URBAN POPULATION;

DOHA; QATAR;

EID: 84939260742     PISSN: 19475683     EISSN: 19475691     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/19475683.2014.992369     Document Type: Article

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