Abstract Cellular Automata (CA) & Markov-Chain modeling are concepts that are utilized in
numerous branches of science. Powerful as they are independently, these two theoretical …

In recent years, cellular automata (CA) models for urban growth simulation have proliferated
because of their simplicity, flexibility and intuitiveness, and particularly because of their …

This book provides a comprehensive discussion on urban growth and sprawl, and how they
can be analyzed using remote sensing imageries. It compiles views of numerous …

Forest fires and deforestation are the main threats to the Amazon forest. Extreme drought
events exacerbate the impact of forest fire in the Amazon, and these drought events are …

Remote Sensing (RS) data and techniques, in combination with GIS and landscape metrics,
are fundamental to analyse and characterise Land Cover (LC) and its changes. The case …

Urban growth pattern has a direct influence on urban development processes both at the city
and neighbourhood levels, but on the other hand growth pattern is also affected by land and …

Accelerated changes in land cover cause changes in environmental dynamics and may
cause land degradation. The goals of the present paper were to analyze changes in land …

Due to intense urbanization in the last decade, high-density city has become a major type of
human habitat globally. In those cities, oppressiveness has been recognized as a …

Urban growth is a spatial and demographic process and refers to the increased importance
of towns and cities as a concentration of population within a particular economy and society …

The integration of food-energy-water (FEW) sectors is essential for addressing the co-
evolution of urban infrastructure systems during urban growth. But how these evolutionary …