Spatial and Temporal Dimensions of Urban Expansion in China

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 49, Issue 16, 2015, Pages 9600-9609

  Zhao, Shuqing ^a   Zhou, Decheng ^a   Zhu, Chao ^a   Sun, Yan ^a   Wu, Wenjia ^a   Liu, Shuguang ^b  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

URBAN PLANNING;

EXPANSION PROCESS; EXPANSION RATE; LANDSAT SATELLITE; LONG-TERM TREND; TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL; TEMPORAL DIMENSIONS; TEMPORAL FLUCTUATION; URBAN EXPANSION;

EXPANSION;

LAND USE CHANGE; LAND USE PLANNING; LANDSAT; MAPPING; SATELLITE DATA; URBAN DEVELOPMENT; URBAN PLANNING; URBANIZATION;

ARTICLE; CHINA; CHINESE; CITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GEOGRAPHIC MAPPING; GROWTH RATE; HUMAN; LAND USE; MATHEMATICAL PHENOMENA; POPULATION GROWTH; REGIONALIZATION; URBAN AREA; URBANIZATION; CITY PLANNING; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TRENDS;

CHINA;

CHINA; CITIES; CITY PLANNING; HUMANS; SPATIO-TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; URBANIZATION;

EID: 84939548309     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.5b00065     Document Type: Article

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