Spatiotemporal variation analysis of urban land expansion in the establishment of new communities in Upper Egypt: A case study of New Asyut city

The Egyptian government set out in the 1970s to establish new cities in the desert to absorb urban sprawl and to prevent further depletion of agricultural lands. Despite such efforts, this policy has not met with much success. In the present study, LANDSAT satellite imagery and binary logistic regre...

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Main Authors: Hatem Mahmoud, Prasanna Divigalpitiya
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2019-04-01
Series:Egyptian Journal of Remote Sensing and Space Sciences
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1110982317300406