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Urban Growth Monitoring in Atlanta by Florin Ciolac is a document available to read on EtoBox.
This document summarizes a study that used satellite imagery to analyze urban spatial growth in the Atlanta metropolitan area between 1973 and 1999. The study developed an image processing and GIS-based method to detect land use and land cover changes over time. The results showed that over this period, the urban area expanded 247% while the population increased 96%. Urban growth was particularly high in outer suburban counties and shifted from a linear to a more dispersed, multinucleated pattern. The rapid
- Author
- Florin Ciolac
- Language
- EN