Land use/land cover dynamics and modeling of urban land expansion by the integration of cellular automata and markov chain

ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2018, Pages

  Rimal, Bhagawat ^a   Zhang, Lifu ^a   Keshtkar, Hamidreza ^b   Haack, Barry N ^c   Rijal, Sushila ^d   Zhang, Peng ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

^c GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences   (Nepal)

Author keywords

CA Markov; Land use cover; Time series; Urbanization

Indexed keywords

EID: 85046100790     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22209964     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/ijgi7040154     Document Type: Article

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