Analysis of Settlement Expansion and Urban Growth Modelling Using Geoinformation for Assessing Potential Impacts of Urbanization on Climate in Abuja City, Nigeria

Analysis of Settlement Expansion and Urban Growth Modelling Using Geoinformation for Assessing Potential Impacts of Urbanization on Climate in Abuja City, Nigeria

This study analyzed the spatiotemporal pattern of settlement expansion in Abuja, Nigeria, one of West Africa’s fastest developing cities, using geoinformation and ancillary datasets. Three epochs of Land-use Land-cover (LULC) maps for 1986, 2001 and 2014 were derived from Landsat images using suppor...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Mahmoud Ibrahim Mahmoud, Alfred Duker, Christopher Conrad, Michael Thiel, Halilu Shaba Ahmad
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2016-03-01
Series:Remote Sensing
Subjects:
land-cover change
settlement expansion
support vector machines
urban growth modelling
climate impact
Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/8/3/220

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