Monitoring and modeling of spatiotemporal urban expansion and land-use/land-cover change using integrated Markov chain cellular automata model

ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information

Volumn 6, Issue 9, 2017, Pages

  Rimal, Bhagawat ^a   Zhang, Lifu ^a   Keshtkar, Hamidreza ^b,c   Wang, Nan ^a   Lin, Yi ^d  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

^d PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

CA Markov; Land use land cover change; Nepal; Remote sensing; Urbanization

Indexed keywords

EID: 85029307346     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22209964     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/ijgi6090288     Document Type: Article

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