Measuring Urban Sprawl Patterns in Greater Cairo Metropolitan Region

Journal of the Indian Society of Remote Sensing

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 287-295

  Osman, Taher ^a,b   Arima, Takafumi ^a   Divigalpitiya, Prasanna ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Cairo University Campus   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Egypt; Geo Spatial Indices; Greater Cairo Region; Informal urbanization; Quantifying urban sprawl

Indexed keywords

FRAGMENTATION; GIS; LAND USE PLANNING; LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE; MEASUREMENT METHOD; METROPOLITAN AREA; POPULATION DENSITY; RESEARCH WORK; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; URBAN POPULATION; URBANIZATION;

CAIRO [EGYPT]; EGYPT;

EID: 84953333172     PISSN: 0255660X     EISSN: 09743006     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12524-015-0489-6     Document Type: Article

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