Monitoring and Prediction of Land-Use and Land-Cover (LULC) Change

This chapter looks at the use of a Markov chain–cellular automata method to model and then predict land-use change in Dhaka. Initially land-use/land-cover maps for three separate time periods were derived from satellite images and evaluated against ground truth. The Markov chain method was then used...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Corner, Robert Jonathan, Dewan, Ashraf, Chakma, Salit
Other Authors: Ashraf Dewan
Format: Book Chapter
Published: Springer 2013
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/8328