In the past few decades, urbanisation has become a major phenomenon in European cities, thus representing one of the key human land cover changes with socio-economic and …
C Tannier, I Thomas - Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, 2013 - Elsevier
In this paper we extract the morphological boundaries of urban agglomerations and characterize boundary shapes using eight fractal and nonfractal spatial indexes. Analyses …
J Zhang, X Zhang, X Tan, X Yuan - Land, 2022 - mdpi.com
With the rapid expansion of urban built-up areas in recent years, it has become particularly urgent to develop a fast, accurate and popularized urban built-up area extraction method …
Identifying urban boundaries involves analysing both the functional and the morphological aspects of urban systems. In this paper, we adopt a purely morphological approach and …
Blight is a concept not commonly discussed. However, blight is a problem that exists in the lives of many people, especially if they reside in urban areas. Blight originates whenever …
Over recent decades, urban areas have expanded into agricultural areas. To contain outward spatial expansion and regulate urbanisation, policy-makers should continually …
In this paper we present a Population-Based Iterated Greedy (PBIG) algorithm for delimiting and zoning rural settlements. Each cadastral plots is allocated to a category (traditional …
C Henriques, A Domingues, M Pereira - ISPRS International Journal of …, 2020 - mdpi.com
The concept of urban area is complex and has been discussed for many years by several authors and organisations through different perspectives and methodological approaches …