The use of remote sensing and landscape metrics to describe structures and changes in urban land uses

Auteurs :
HEROLD, M.
SCEPAN, J.
CLARKE, K.C.

Description :
The study introduces a methodology using information on image spatial form to describe urban land-use structures and land-cover changes that result from urban growth. The analysis is based on spatial analysis of land-cover structures mapped from digitally classified of aerial photographs of the urban region Santa Barbara, California. The results show a useful separation and characterization of three urban land-use types : commercial development, high-density residential, and low-density residential. Several important structural land-cover features are identified. For two test areas in the region, changes in the urban spatial land-use structure can be described and quantified with landscape metrics.


Type de document :
Article de périodique

Source :
Environment and planning A, issn : 0308-518X, 2002, vol. 34, n°. 8, p. 1443-1458, nombre de pages : 16, Collation : Illustration, Références bibliographiques : 52 ref.

Date :
2002

Editeur :
Pays édition : Royaume-Uni, London, Pion