Analysis of urban sprawl dynamics using geospatial technology in Ranchi city, Jharkhand, India

The availability of remote sensing satellite data at various spatial, temporal and spectral resolutions provides enormous opportunity to map the urban sprawl. When coupled with Geographic Information System (GIS) it is possible to evaluate, analyse and integrate large data. We need to understand and...

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Bibliográfiai részletek
Szerzők: Ahmad Firoz
Goparaju Laxmi
Dokumentumtípus: Cikk
Megjelent: 2016
Sorozat:Journal of environmental geography 9 No. 1-2
Kulcsszavak:Urbanizáció - India - regionális, Térinformatika
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Online Access:http://acta.bibl.u-szeged.hu/44094
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