Analysis of urban growth and sprawl from remote sensing data
By: Basudeb Bhatta
Series: Advances in geographic information science; Advances in geographic information science
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Heidelberg; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 172
ISBN-13: 9783642052989; 9783642052996
Subjects: Methodologie; Monitoring; Remote sensing; Cities and towns; Growth; Groei; Verstädterung; Stedelijke gebieden; Stadt; Fernerkundung; Gevolgen; Stadtentwicklung; Geographic information systems; Zersiedlung
Description: 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&nbsp;which help in understanding&nbsp;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&nbsp;current methods and models. Scientists and researchers engaged in urban geographic research will benefit greatly from this book, especially when using remote sensing imageries.&nbsp; Post graduate students of urban geography or urban/regional planning may refer to this book&nbsp;for additional information. This book&nbsp;should also&nbsp;assist&nbsp; academicians&nbsp;when preparing lecture notes and delivering lectures.&nbsp;Professionals in related fields in industry&nbsp;will&nbsp;appreciate the&nbsp;methods and models discussed&nbsp; as well as the&nbsp;many citations.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 1; title: Urban growth and sprawl -- -- 1.1; title: Introduction -- -- 1.2; title: Urban geography -- -- 1.3; title: Urban development, urban growth, and urbanisation -- -- 1.4; title: Urban area -- -- 1.5; title: Urban ecosystem -- -- 1.6; title: Urban sprawl -- -- 1.6.1; title: Defining urban sprawl -- -- 1.7; title: Physical patterns and forms of urban growth and sprawl -- -- 1.7.1; title: Urban growth patterns as sprawl -- -- 1.8; title: Temporal process of urban growth and sprawl -- -- 2; title: Causes and consequences of urban growth and sprawl -- -- 2.1; title: Introduction -- -- 2.2; title: Causes of urban growth and sprawl -- -- 2.2.1; title: Population growth -- -- 2.2.2; title: Independence of decision -- -- 2.2.3; title: Economic growth -- -- 2.2.4; title: Industrialisation -- -- 2.2.5; title: Speculation -- -- 2.2.6; title: Expectations of land appreciation -- -- 2.2.7; title: Land hunger attitude -- -- 2.2.8; title: Legal disputes -- -- 2.2.9; title: Physical geography -- -- 2.2.10; title: Development and property tax -- -- 2.2.11; title: Living and property cost -- -- 2.2.12; title: Lack of affordable housing -- -- 2.2.13; title: Demand of more living space -- -- 2.2.14; title: Public regulation -- -- 2.2.15; title: Transportation -- -- 2.2.16; title: Road width -- -- 2.2.17; title: Single-family home -- -- 2.2.18; title: Nucleus family -- -- 2.2.19; title: Credit and capital market -- -- 2.2.20; title: Government developmental properties -- -- 2.2.21; title: Lack of proper planning policies -- -- 2.2.22; title: Failure to enforce planning policies -- -- 2.2.23; title: Country-living desire -- -- 2.2.24; title: Housing investment -- -- 2.2.25; title: Large lot size --; title: 2.3; title: Consequences of urban growth and sprawl -- -- 2.3.1; title: Inflated infrastructure and related public service costs -- -- 2.3.2; title: Energy inefficiency -- -- 2.3.3; title: Disparity in wealth -- -- 2.3.4; title: Impacts on wildlife and ecosystem -- -- 2.3.5; title: Loss of farmland -- -- 2.3.6; title: Increase in temperature -- -- 2.3.7; title: Poor air quality -- -- 2.3.8; title: Impacts on water quality and quantity -- -- 2.3.9; title: Impacts on public and social health -- -- 2.3.10; title: Other impacts -- -- 3; title: Towards sustainable development and smart growth -- -- 3.1; title: Introduction -- -- 3.2; title: Sustainable development -- -- 3.3; title: Smart growth -- -- 3.3.1; title: Compact neighbourhoods -- -- 3.3.2.; title: Transit-oriented development -- -- 3.3.3.; title: Pedestrian- and bicycle-friendly design -- -- 3.3.4; title: Other elements -- -- 3.4; title: Restricting urban growth and sprawl -- -- 4 -- Remote sensing, GIS, and urban analysis -- 4.1; title: Introduction -- -- 4.2; title: Remote sensing -- -- 4.3; title: Urban remote sensing -- -- 4.4; title: Consideration of revolutions in urban applications -- -- 4.4.1; title: Spatial resolution -- -- 4.4.2; title: Spectral and radiometric resolutions -- -- 4.4.3; title: Temporal resolution -- -- 4.5; title: Geographic Information System -- -- 4.5.1; title: GIS in urban analysis -- -- 4.6; title: Urban analysis -- -- 4.6.1; title: Analysis of urban growth ---- Analysis of urban growth using remote sensing data; title: 5; title: Mapping and monitoring urban growth -- -- 5.1; title: Introduction -- -- 5.2; title: Image overlay -- -- 5.3; title: Image reduction -- -- 5.4; title: Image index (ratioing) -- -- 5.5; title: Spectral-temporal classification -- -- 5.6; title: Image regression -- -- 5.7; title: Principal components analysis transformation -- -- 5.8; title: Change vector analysis -- -- 5.9; title: Artificial neural network -- -- 5.10; title: Decision tree -- -- 5.11; title: Intensity-hue saturation transformation -- -- 5.12; title: Econometric panel -- -- 5.13; title: Image classification and post-classification comparision -- -- 5.14; title: Challenges and constraints -- -- 6.; title: Measurement and analysis of urban growth -- -- 6.1; title: Introduction -- -- 6.2; title: Transition matrices -- -- 6.2.1; title: Transition matrix in urban growth analysis -- -- 6.3; title: Spatial metrics -- -- 6.3.1; title: Remote sensing, spatial metrics, and urban modelling -- -- 6.3.2; title: Spatial metrics in urban growth analysis -- -- 6.4; title: Spatial statistics -- -- 6.4.1; title: Types of spatial statistics -- -- 6.4.2; title: Spatial statistics in urban growth analysis -- -- 6.5; title: Quantification and characterisation of sprawl -- -- 7; title: Modelling and simulation of urban growth -- -- 7.1; title: Introduction -- -- 7.2; title: Urban model and modelling -- -- 7.2.1; title: Classification of urban models -- -- 7.3; title: Theoretical models -- -- 7.4; title: Aggregate-level urban dynamic models -- -- 7.5; title: Complexity science-based models -- -- 7.5.1; title: Cell-based dynamics models -- -- 7.5.2; title: Agent-based models -- -- 7.5.3; title: Artificial Neural Network (ANN)-based models -- -- 7.5.4; title: Fractal geometry-based models -- -- 7.6; title: Rule-based land-use and transport models -- -- 7.7; title: Modelling of urban growth -- -- 7.7.1; title: Modelling of urban growth from remote sensing data --; title: 8; title: Limitations of urban growth analysis -- -- 8.1; title: Introduction -- -- 8.2; title: Data and scale dependency -- -- 8.2.1; title: Spatial scale -- -- 8.2.2; title: Pattern quantification scale -- -- 8.2.3; title: Pattern summarisation scale -- -- 8.3; title: Data generation methods -- -- 8.4; title: Classification accuracy -- -- 8.5; title: Selection of metrics -- -- 8.6; title: Definition of the spatial domain -- -- 8.7; title: Spatial characterisation -- -- 8.8; title: Spatial dependency (autocorrellation) -- -- 8.9; title: Spatial and temporal sampling -- -- 8.10; title: Modifiable areal unit problem.