Modeling of urban growth using cellular automata (CA) optimized by Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO)

In this paper, two satellite images of Tehran, the capital city of Iran, which were taken by TM and ETM<sup>+</sup> for years 1988 and 2010 are used as the base information layers to study the changes in urban patterns of this metropolis. The patterns of urban growth for the city of Tehr...

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Main Authors: M. H. Khalilnia, T. Ghaemirad, R. A. Abbaspour
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Copernicus Publications 2013-09-01
Series:The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences
Online Access:http://www.int-arch-photogramm-remote-sens-spatial-inf-sci.net/XL-1-W3/231/2013/isprsarchives-XL-1-W3-231-2013.pdf