Bhatta, B.

Analysis of urban growth and sprawl from remote sensing data / Basudeb Bhatta. - Heidelberg ; New York : Springer, c2010. - xx, 172 p. : ill., map ; 25 cm. - Advances in geographic information science, 1867-2434 . - Advances in geographic information science. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Urban growth and sprawl -- Introduction -- Urban geography -- Urban development, urban growth, and urbanisation -- Urban area -- Urban ecosystem -- Urban sprawl -- Defining urban sprawl -- Physical patterns and forms of urban growth and sprawl -- Urban growth patterns as sprawl -- Temporal process of urban growth and sprawl -- Causes and consequences of urban growth and sprawl -- Introduction -- Causes of urban growth and sprawl -- Population growth -- Independence of decision -- Economic growth -- Industrialisation -- Speculation -- Expectations of land appreciation -- Land hunger attitude -- Legal disputes -- Physical geography -- Development and property tax -- Living and property cost -- Lack of affordable housing -- Demand of more living space -- Public regulation -- Transportation -- Road width -- Single-family home -- Nucleus family -- Credit and capital market -- Government developmental properties -- Lack of proper planning policies -- Failure to enforce planning policies -- Country-living desire -- Housing investment -- Large lot size -- 1 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.6.1 1.7 1.7.1 1.8 2 2.1 2.2 2.2.1 2.2.2 2.2.3 2.2.4 2.2.5 2.2.6 2.2.7 2.2.8 2.2.9 2.2.10 2.2.11 2.2.12 2.2.13 2.2.14 2.2.15 2.2.16 2.2.17 2.2.18 2.2.19 2.2.20 2.2.21 2.2.22 2.2.23 2.2.24 2.2.25 Consequences of urban growth and sprawl -- Inflated infrastructure and related public service costs -- Energy inefficiency -- Disparity in wealth -- Impacts on wildlife and ecosystem -- Loss of farmland -- Increase in temperature -- Poor air quality -- Impacts on water quality and quantity -- Impacts on public and social health -- Other impacts -- Towards sustainable development and smart growth -- Introduction -- Sustainable development -- Smart growth -- Compact neighbourhoods -- Transit-oriented development -- Pedestrian- and bicycle-friendly design -- Other elements -- Restricting urban growth and sprawl -- Introduction -- Remote sensing -- Urban remote sensing -- Consideration of revolutions in urban applications -- Spatial resolution -- Spectral and radiometric resolutions -- Temporal resolution -- Geographic Information System -- GIS in urban analysis -- Urban analysis -- Analysis of urban growth -- 2.3 2.3.1 2.3.2 2.3.3 2.3.4 2.3.5 2.3.6 2.3.7 2.3.8 2.3.9 2.3.10 3 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.3.1 3.3.2. 3.3.3. 3.3.4 3.4 4 Remote sensing, GIS, and urban analysis -- 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.4.1 4.4.2 4.4.3 4.5 4.5.1 4.6 4.6.1 Analysis of urban growth using remote sensing data -- Mapping and monitoring urban growth -- Introduction -- Image overlay -- Image reduction -- Image index (ratioing) -- Spectral-temporal classification -- Image regression -- Principal components analysis transformation -- Change vector analysis -- Artificial neural network -- Decision tree -- Intensity-hue saturation transformation -- Econometric panel -- Image classification and post-classification comparision -- Challenges and constraints -- Measurement and analysis of urban growth -- Introduction -- Transition matrices -- Transition matrix in urban growth analysis -- Spatial metrics -- Remote sensing, spatial metrics, and urban modelling -- Spatial metrics in urban growth analysis -- Spatial statistics -- Types of spatial statistics -- Spatial statistics in urban growth analysis -- Quantification and characterisation of sprawl -- Modelling and simulation of urban growth -- Introduction -- Urban model and modelling -- Classification of urban models -- Theoretical models -- Aggregate-level urban dynamic models -- Complexity science-based models -- Cell-based dynamics models -- Agent-based models -- Artificial Neural Network (ANN)-based models -- Fractal geometry-based models -- Rule-based land-use and transport models -- Modelling of urban growth -- Modelling of urban growth from remote sensing data -- 5 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 5.6 5.7 5.8 5.9 5.10 5.11 5.12 5.13 5.14 6. 6.1 6.2 6.2.1 6.3 6.3.1 6.3.2 6.4 6.4.1 6.4.2 6.5 7 7.1 7.2 7.2.1 7.3 7.4 7.5 7.5.1 7.5.2 7.5.3 7.5.4 7.6 7.7 7.7.1 Limitations of urban growth analysis -- Introduction -- Data and scale dependency -- Spatial scale -- Pattern quantification scale -- Pattern summarisation scale -- Data generation methods -- Classification accuracy -- Selection of metrics -- Definition of the spatial domain -- Spatial characterisation -- Spatial dependency (autocorrellation) -- Spatial and temporal sampling -- Modifiable areal unit problem. 8 8.1 8.2 8.2.1 8.2.2 8.2.3 8.3 8.4 8.5 8.6 8.7 8.8 8.9 8.10

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Cities and towns--Growth--Remote sensing.
Geographic information systems.
Stedelijke gebieden
Groei
Gevolgen
Methodologie
Monitoring
Fernerkundung.
Stadt.
Stadtentwicklung.
Verstädterung.
Zersiedlung.

HT371 / .B45 2010

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