Land cover mapping analysis and urban growth modelling using remote sensing techniques in greater Cairo region-Egypt

ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 1750-1769

  Megahed, Yasmine ^a   Cabral, Pedro ^a   Silva, Joel ^a   Caetano, Mário ^a  

^a NOVA INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SCHOOL NOVA IMS   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Cultural heritage; Support vector machines; Urban growth modeling; Urban growth pattern

Indexed keywords

EID: 84949008960     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22209964     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/ijgi4031750     Document Type: Article

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