Using remote sensing and GIS to detect and monitor land use and land cover change in Dhaka Metropolitan of Bangladesh during 1960-2005

This paper illustrates the result of land use/cover change in Dhaka Metropolitan of Bangladesh using topographic maps and multi-temporal remotely sensed data from 1960 to 2005. The Maximum likelihood supervised classification technique was used to extract information from satellite data, and post-cl...

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Main Authors: Dewan, Ashraf, Yamaguchi, Y.
Format: Journal Article
Published: Springer Netherlands 2009
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/24088