TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bhatta,B.
TI  - Analysis of urban growth and sprawl from remote sensing data
T2  - Advances in geographic information science,
SN  - 9783642052989 (hbk.)
AV  - HT371 .B45 2010
U1  - 307.76 22
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Heidelberg, New York
PB  - Springer
KW  - Cities and towns
KW  - Growth
KW  - Remote sensing
KW  - Geographic information systems
KW  - Stedelijke gebieden
KW  - gtt
KW  - Groei
KW  - Gevolgen
KW  - Methodologie
KW  - Monitoring
KW  - Fernerkundung
KW  - swd
KW  - Stadt
KW  - Stadtentwicklung
KW  - Verstädterung
KW  - Zersiedlung
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 1; Urban growth and sprawl --; 1.1; Introduction --; 1.2; Urban geography --; 1.3; Urban development, urban growth, and urbanisation --; 1.4; Urban area --; 1.5; Urban ecosystem --; 1.6; Urban sprawl --; 1.6.1; Defining urban sprawl --; 1.7; Physical patterns and forms of urban growth and sprawl --; 1.7.1; Urban growth patterns as sprawl --; 1.8; Temporal process of urban growth and sprawl --; 2; Causes and consequences of urban growth and sprawl --; 2.1; Introduction --; 2.2; Causes of urban growth and sprawl --; 2.2.1; Population growth --; 2.2.2; Independence of decision --; 2.2.3; Economic growth --; 2.2.4; Industrialisation --; 2.2.5; Speculation --; 2.2.6; Expectations of land appreciation --; 2.2.7; Land hunger attitude --; 2.2.8; Legal disputes --; 2.2.9; Physical geography --; 2.2.10; Development and property tax --; 2.2.11; Living and property cost --; 2.2.12; Lack of affordable housing --; 2.2.13; Demand of more living space --; 2.2.14; Public regulation --; 2.2.15; Transportation --; 2.2.16; Road width --; 2.2.17; Single-family home --; 2.2.18; Nucleus family --; 2.2.19; Credit and capital market --; 2.2.20; Government developmental properties --; 2.2.21; Lack of proper planning policies --; 2.2.22; Failure to enforce planning policies --; 2.2.23; Country-living desire --; 2.2.24; Housing investment --; 2.2.25; Large lot size --; 2.3; Consequences of urban growth and sprawl --; 2.3.1; Inflated infrastructure and related public service costs --; 2.3.2; Energy inefficiency --; 2.3.3; Disparity in wealth --; 2.3.4; Impacts on wildlife and ecosystem --; 2.3.5; Loss of farmland --; 2.3.6; Increase in temperature --; 2.3.7; Poor air quality --; 2.3.8; Impacts on water quality and quantity --; 2.3.9; Impacts on public and social health --; 2.3.10; Other impacts --; 3; Towards sustainable development and smart growth --; 3.1; Introduction --; 3.2; Sustainable development --; 3.3; Smart growth --; 3.3.1; Compact neighbourhoods --; 3.3.2; Transit-oriented development --; 3.3.3; Pedestrian- and bicycle-friendly design --; 3.3.4; Other elements --; 3.4; Restricting urban growth and sprawl --; 4; Remote sensing, GIS, and urban analysis --; 4.1; Introduction --; 4.2; Remote sensing --; 4.3; Urban remote sensing --; 4.4; Consideration of revolutions in urban applications --; 4.4.1; Spatial resolution --; 4.4.2; Spectral and radiometric resolutions --; 4.4.3; Temporal resolution --; 4.5; Geographic Information System --; 4.5.1; GIS in urban analysis --; 4.6; Urban analysis --; 4.6.1; Analysis of urban growth --; Analysis of urban growth using remote sensing data --; 5; Mapping and monitoring urban growth --; 5.1; Introduction --; 5.2; Image overlay --; 5.3; Image reduction --; 5.4; Image index (ratioing) --; 5.5; Spectral-temporal classification --; 5.6; Image regression --; 5.7; Principal components analysis transformation --; 5.8; Change vector analysis --; 5.9; Artificial neural network --; 5.10; Decision tree --; 5.11; Intensity-hue saturation transformation --; 5.12; Econometric panel --; 5.13; Image classification and post-classification comparision --; 5.14; Challenges and constraints --; 6; Measurement and analysis of urban growth --; 6.1; Introduction --; 6.2; Transition matrices --; 6.2.1; Transition matrix in urban growth analysis --; 6.3; Spatial metrics --; 6.3.1; Remote sensing, spatial metrics, and urban modelling --; 6.3.2; Spatial metrics in urban growth analysis --; 6.4; Spatial statistics --; 6.4.1; Types of spatial statistics --; 6.4.2; Spatial statistics in urban growth analysis --; 6.5; Quantification and characterisation of sprawl --; 7; Modelling and simulation of urban growth --; 7.1; Introduction --; 7.2; Urban model and modelling --; 7.2.1; Classification of urban models --; 7.3; Theoretical models --; 7.4; Aggregate-level urban dynamic models --; 7.5; Complexity science-based models --; 7.5.1; Cell-based dynamics models --; 7.5.2; Agent-based models --; 7.5.3; Artificial Neural Network (ANN)-based models --; 7.5.4; Fractal geometry-based models --; 7.6; Rule-based land-use and transport models --; 7.7; Modelling of urban growth --; 7.7.1; Modelling of urban growth from remote sensing data --; 8; Limitations of urban growth analysis --; 8.1; Introduction --; 8.2; Data and scale dependency --; 8.2.1; Spatial scale --; 8.2.2; Pattern quantification scale --; 8.2.3; Pattern summarisation scale --; 8.3; Data generation methods --; 8.4; Classification accuracy --; 8.5; Selection of metrics --; 8.6; Definition of the spatial domain --; 8.7; Spatial characterisation --; 8.8; Spatial dependency (autocorrellation) --; 8.9; Spatial and temporal sampling --; 8.10; Modifiable areal unit problem
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