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 that help in understanding a host of topics in urban growth and sprawl.

Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Autorentext

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

Inhalt
Urban Growth and Sprawl.- Causes and Consequences of Urban Growth and Sprawl.- Towards Sustainable Development and Smart Growth.- Remote Sensing, GIS, and Urban Analysis.- Mapping and Monitoring Urban Growth.- Measurement and Analysis of Urban Growth.- Modelling and Simulation of Urban Growth.- Limitations of Urban Growth Analysis.