Africa has been a hotspot of rapid urban growth since 2000, yet no review exists that
describes the current state of urban growth modeling. This review aims to fill this gap by …

Despite the increasing availability of remote sensing imagery, spatial data of adequate
spatio-temporal resolution for urban development analysis and urban planning remains …

Land use planning as strategic instruments to guide urban dynamics faces particular
challenges in the Global South, including Sub-Saharan Africa, where urgent interventions …

The concept of spatial interaction deduced from Newton's first law of motion, which has been
extended from interactions between two points of elements eg, two cities to interactions …

Elucidating the formation of city-regions, which is associated with networks of settlements
and their spatial densities is crucial for the spatial distribution or arrangments of regional …

Abstract Study region Abuja Federal Capital Territory (FCT; Nigeria). Study Focus Rapid
population growth has led to significant land use changes, with potential negative impacts …

Understanding land use and land cover (LULC) classification is critical for addressing
environmental and human needs, particularly in developing countries. Nigeria is a …

This paper presents a novel method for predicting and controlling urban growth by
combining convolutional neural networks (CNN) with Spider Monkey Optimization (SMO) to …

Desertification has become one of the most pronounced ecological disasters, affecting arid
and semi-arid areas of Nigeria. This phenomenon is more pronounced in the northern …

Environmental conditions and human activity influence the selection of nest sites by
chimpanzees and may have serious conservation implications. We examined the …