Analysis of Urban Growth and Sprawl from Remote Sensing Data

ISBN-13: 9783642052989 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 172 str.

Basudeb Bhatta

Opis

This book provides a comprehensive discussion on urban growth and sprawl, and how they can be analyzed using remote sensing imageries. It compiles views of numerous researchers that help in understanding the urban growth and sprawl; their patterns, process, causes, consequences, and countermeasures; how remote sensing data and geographic information system techniques can be used in mapping, monitoring, measuring, analyzing, and simulating the urban growth and sprawl; and what are the merits and demerits of available methods and models. This book will be of value for the scientists and researchers engaged in urban geographic research, especially using remote sensing imageries. This book will serve as a rigours literature review for them. Post graduate students of urban geography or urban/regional planning may refer this book as additional studies. This book may help the academicians for preparing lecture notes and delivering lectures. Industry professionals may also be benefited from the discussed methods and models along with numerous citations.

Recenzje

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Spis treści

1. Pattern and Process of Urban Growth and Sprawl.- 2.Causes and Consequences of Urban Growth and Sprawl.- 3. Sustainable Development and Smart Growth.- 4. Sustainable Development and Smart Growth.- 5. Mapping and Monitoring Urban Growth.- 6. Simulation of Urban Growth.- 7.Modelling and Simulation of Urban Growth.- 8. Limitations of Urban Growth Analysis.

O autorze

The author is currently a Course Coordinator in the Computer Aided Design Centre of Jadavpur University, Kolkata. He has more than 13 years of industrial, teaching and research experience in remote sensing, GNSS, and GIS. He has authored numerous research papers and articles in various journals and magazines. He has also authored two textbooks on Remote Sensing, GNSS, and GIS. In recent years he has been engaged with rigorous research on applications of geoinformatics in urban geographic studies

Blurb

This book provides a comprehensive discussion on urban growth and sprawl, and how they can be analyzed using remote sensing imageries. It compiles the views of numerous researchers which help in understanding urban growth and sprawl; their patterns, process, causes, consequences, and countermeasures; how remote sensing data and geographic information system techniques can be used in mapping, monitoring, measuring, analyzing, and simulating the urban growth and sprawl; and the merits and demerits of current methods and models.

Scientists and researchers engaged in urban geographic research will benefit greatly from this book, especially when using remote sensing imageries.  Post graduate students of urban geography or urban/regional planning may refer to this book for additional information. This book should also assist  academicians when preparing lecture notes and delivering lectures. Professionals in related fields in industry will appreciate the methods and models discussed  as well as the many citations.