Rates and patterns of urban expansion in China’s 32 major cities over the past three decades

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 30, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 1541-1559

  Zhao, Shuqing ^a   Zhou, Decheng ^a   Zhu, Chao ^a   Qu, Wenyuan ^a   Zhao, Jiajia ^a   Sun, Yan ^a   Huang, Dian ^a   Wu, Wenjia ^a   Liu, Shuguang ^b  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Patch structure; Remote sensing; Self organization; Spatiotemporal dynamics; Urban growth modes; Urbanization

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; LANDSAT; PATCH DYNAMICS; POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; SOCIOECONOMIC IMPACT; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TRAJECTORY; URBAN GROWTH; URBANIZATION;

CHINA;

EID: 84940796289     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: 15729761     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10980-015-0211-7     Document Type: Article

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