Urban expansion is a dynamic and complex phenomenon, often involving adverse changes
in land use and land cover (LULC). This paper uses satellite imagery from Landsat-5 TM …

Urban planning mainly concentrates on the management of cities as an administrative unit.
Urban regions, their state and development, constitute the major interaction of urbanization …

Urban sprawl is generally defined as the urbanization of space adjacent to a city, which
results from that city's development. The discussed phenomenon involves land …

In this study, Bucharest, the capital city of Romania was selected as a case study. Based on
time series of Landsat TM imagery and statistical data, an analysis on urban growth from …

The accentuated dynamics of the real estate markets of the last 20 years, determined that a
large part of the territories in the immediate vicinity of the big urban centers, to change their …

Monitoring land changes is an important activity in landscape planning and resource
management. In this study, we analyze urban land changes in Atlanta metropolitan area …

Monitoring urban land use requires very high spatial resolution image data, acquired either
by airborne or spaceborne sensor systems. The information content of such images is very …

This research project, carried out in the framework of the INTAS/VEGETATION Programmes
at the Faculty of Geography, Moscow State University, aims to assess and to map land use …

Land use/land cover (LULC) change occurs due to natural and anthropogenic causes. In
developing countries, rapid industrialization and urbanization imposes a major threat to …

The main objective of the study was to recognize the spatial regularities of the urbanised
land development, as well as to determine the impact of the distance from the city center of …