Urban Growth Analysis and Remote Sensing : A Case Study of Kolkata, India 1980–2010 /
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| Formato: | eBook |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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Dordrecht :
Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer,
2012.
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| Edición: | 1st ed. 2012. |
| Colección: | SpringerBriefs in Geography,
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- -Background
- -Significance
- -Objectives
- -Research Questions
- -Methodological Overview
- Review of Literature
- -Urban Growth and Sprawl
- -Physical Patterns and Forms of Urban Growth and Sprawl
- -Temporal Process of Urban Growth and Sprawl
- -Remote Sensing for the Analysis of Urban Growth and Sprawl
- -Measurement and Analysis of Urban Growth and Sprawl
- -Administrative versus Natural Boundary for the Analysis
- -Determining the Natural Boundary of the City
- -Subdivision of Natural City Extent. -Similar Studies in India
- -Similar Studies on Kolkata
- -Scope of the Research
- Methodology
- -Data
- -Software Used
- -Image Registration
- -Encoding Hardcopy Map
- -Encoding Vector Maps
- -Image Classification
- -Assessment of Classification Accuracy
- -Subsetting of Remote Sensing Data
- -Determining the Natural Boundary of the City
- -Subdivision of Natural City Extent
- -Calculating the Built-up Area
- -Generation of KMC Boundary
- -Analysis Based on Administrative Boundary
- -Analysis Based on Natural Boundary
- -City of Kolkata
- Result and Discussion
- -Classified Imagery and Change Map
- -Results from Analysis—Based on Administrative Boundary
- -Results from Analysis—Based on Natural Boundary
- -Comparison of Sprawl Analyses
- -Degree of Freedom and Goodness
- -Boundary of the city
- -Application of the Results
- -Limitations of the Research
- Conclusions
- -Conclusions
- -Scope of Future Research.