[HTML][HTML] Land use and land cover change detection and prediction in Bhutan's high altitude city of Thimphu, using cellular automata and Markov chain

SW Wang, L Munkhnasan, WK Lee - Environmental Challenges, 2021 - Elsevier
Rapid urbanization is changing landscapes often resulting in the degradation of ecosystem
services and quality of urban life. Remote sensing and GIS tools can provide valuable …

Land use and land cover change detection and prediction in the Kathmandu district of Nepal using remote sensing and GIS

SW Wang, BM Gebru, M Lamchin, RB Kayastha… - Sustainability, 2020 - mdpi.com
Understanding land use and land cover changes has become a necessity in managing and
monitoring natural resources and development especially urban planning. Remote sensing …

Land use/land cover dynamics and modeling of urban land expansion by the integration of cellular automata and markov chain

B Rimal, L Zhang, H Keshtkar, BN Haack… - … International Journal of …, 2018 - mdpi.com
This study explored the past and present land-use/land-cover (LULC) changes and urban
expansion pattern for the cities of the Kathmandu valley and their surroundings using …

Remote sensing of human–environment interactions in global change research: A review of advances, challenges and future directions

N G. Pricope, K L. Mapes, K D. Woodward - Remote Sensing, 2019 - mdpi.com
The role of remote sensing and human–environment interactions (HEI) research in social
and environmental decision-making has steadily increased along with numerous …

[HTML][HTML] Detecting subpixel human settlements in mountains using deep learning: A case of the Hindu Kush Himalaya 1990–2020

THK Chen, B Pandey, KC Seto - Remote Sensing of Environment, 2023 - Elsevier
The majority of future population growth in mountains will occur in small-and medium-sized
cities and towns and affect vulnerable ecosystems. However, mountain settlements are often …

Spatiotemporal analysis of land use/land cover and its effects on surface urban heat island using Landsat data: A case study of Metropolitan City Tehran (1988–2018)

I Rousta, MO Sarif, RD Gupta, H Olafsson… - Sustainability, 2018 - mdpi.com
This article summarized the spatiotemporal pattern of land use/land cover (LU/LC) and
urban heat island (UHI) dynamics in the Metropolitan city of Tehran between 1988 and …

Examining the nexus between land surface temperature and urban growth in Chattogram Metropolitan Area of Bangladesh using long term Landsat series data

S Roy, S Pandit, EA Eva, MSH Bagmar, M Papia… - Urban Climate, 2020 - Elsevier
In this study, we assessed the impact of Land-Use/Land-Cover (LULC) changes on Land
Surface Temperature (LST) in Chattogram Metropolitan Area (CMA) of southeastern …

Understanding vitality of public space: A review with an example of capital city Kathmandu in Nepal

U Paudel, KP Pant - Land Use Policy, 2023 - Elsevier
By definition, public spaces are areas or locations that are open and accessible to all
people, and in cities they are open space that is specifically concerned with public health …

Digital mapping and predicting the urban growth: integrating scenarios into cellular automata—Markov chain modeling

O Isinkaralar, C Varol, D Yilmaz - Applied Geomatics, 2022 - Springer
Predictive modeling and land use/land cover change studies in complex systems are well
advanced. Cellular automata (CA)-Markov chain (MC) can be defined as one frequently …

[HTML][HTML] Urbanisation and socio-ecological challenges in high mountain towns: Insights from Leh (Ladakh), India

J Dame, S Schmidt, J Müller, M Nüsser - Landscape and urban planning, 2019 - Elsevier
Rapid urbanisation increasingly affects small and medium-sized towns adversely in high
mountain regions, which are especially vulnerable to socioecological challenges like …