Rapid and haphazard urban growth has triggered urban sprawl and induced irreversible
land cover conversions. In this context, studies are required to comprehensively review the …

This article reviews existing literature on spatial metrics, presenting a portfolio of metrics
addressing the spatial patterns of growing and shrinking cities and discussing their potential …

As a response to the challenge of rapid pace of urbanization and lack of reliable data for
environmental and urban planning, especially in the develo** countries, this paper …

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 …

Conceptual ambiguity of sprawl and lack of consensus among researchers have made the
measurement of urban sprawl very difficult, especially from remote sensing data. There are …

This paper presents an integrated study of urbanization trends in Shijiazhuang City, Hebei
Province of China, by using Geographical Information Systems (GIS) and remote sensing …

This study examined the dynamics of global urban expansion by defining a new universe of
3,943 cities with population in excess of 100,000 and drawing a stratified global sample of …

Density analysis lies at the core of studies on urban expansion; however, many methods in
urban land density analysis are arbitrary and suffer from the lack of an established …

Remote Sensing (RS) data and techniques, in combination with GIS and landscape metrics,
are fundamental to analyse and characterise Land Cover (LC) and its changes. The case …

Landscape metrics or indices have been commonly used for quantifying landscape patterns.
However, most of these indices are generally focused on simple analysis and description of …