Spatio-temporal analysis of land use transition and urban growth characterization in Benin metropolitan region, Nigeria

Remote Sensing Applications: Society and Environment

Volumn 4, Issue , 2016, Pages 119-137

  Nkeki, Felix Ndidi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BENIN   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

GIS; Land use classification; Multi temporal; Remote sensing; Shannon's entropy; Spatial metrics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84984817472     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23529385     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rsase.2016.08.002     Document Type: Article

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