Urban settlements and their connectivity will be the dominant driver of global change during
the twenty-first century. In an attempt to assess the effects of URBAN GROWTH on available …

An effective and efficient planning of an urban growth and land use changes and its impact
on the environment requires information about growth trends and patterns amongst other …

Understanding, analysis, monitoring and modeling of urban growth evolution as a major
driving force of land use/land cover transformation, especially in developing countries, is of …

The population settlements in the fast-growing urban world need to be monitored in order to
design a sustainable urban habitat. The remote sensing and GIS are considered as an …

In this research, the SLEUTH urban growth model is calibrated and validated for the first time
to post Soviet Union cities. The aim of the study is to monitor, assess, simulate and compare …

The aim of this study was to assess the application of cellular automata in urban modeling to
give insights into a wide variety of urban phenomena, using the most commonly used urban …

The dynamics of urban growth are the direct consequence of the actions of individuals, and
public and private organisations, which act to change the urban landscape simultaneously …

In recent years, urban growth has become the center of attention and preoccupation for
many researchers especially those concerned with urban planning. Some scholars only take …

We developed a geographic cellular automata (CA) model based on partial least squares
(PLS) regression (termed PLS-CA) to simulate dynamic urban growth in a geographical …

The hypothesis addressed in this article is to determine the extent of selected land use
categories with respect to their effect on urban expansion. A model that combines a logistic …