Urban development if not planned and managed adequately can be unsustainable. Urban
growth models have been a powerful toolkit to help tackling this challenge. In this paper, we …

This paper reviews articles published in the English language and using geospatial data in
analysing the state of urban sprawl in India. India is not far behind in the unparalleled global …

Assessing the performance of land change simulation models is a critical step when
predicting the future landscape scenario. The study was conducted in the district of …

The accurate delineation of urban agglomeration boundary is conductive to not only the
better understanding of the development relationship between cities in urban agglomeration …

Land use change affected by wide ranges of human activities is a key driver of global
climate change. In the last three decades, China has experienced unprecedented land use …

Urban sprawl is a ubiquitous with a complex network of driving forces and human and
natural impacts on various scales of the coupled human-environment urban system. In …

Fire Service is the fundamental civic service to protect citizens from irrecoverable, heavy
losses of lives and property. Hotspot analysis of structure fires is essential to estimate people …

The present study aims to investigate the dynamics of land use and land cover (LULC) and
their relationship with ecosystem services value (ESV) from the past to the future (1990 …

Proactive planning and management of rapidly urbanizing cities using up-to-date spatially
explicit datasets is an urgent need. This requires a good understanding of the driving factors …

The use of a free-trade zone (FTZ) has emerged as a smart land tool in increasing trading,
attracting foreign investment, attempting financial openness and conducting other pilot …