Detection of Land Use/Land Cover Changes and Urban Sprawl in Al-Khobar, Saudi Arabia: An Analysis of Multi-Temporal Remote Sensing Data

Detection of Land Use/Land Cover Changes and Urban Sprawl in Al-Khobar, Saudi Arabia: An Analysis of Multi-Temporal Remote Sensing Data

While several studies examined land use and land cover changes in the central and western parts of Saudi Arabia, this study is the first to use remote sensing data to examine the decadal land cover changes in Saudi Arabia’s eastern coastal city of Al-Khobar between 1990 and 2013. Specifically, it ut...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Muhammad Tauhidur Rahman
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2016-02-01
Series:ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information
Subjects:
change detection
multi-temporal remote sensing data
spatiotemporal analysis
urban sprawl
entropy
Al-Khobar
Saudi Arabia
Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/2220-9964/5/2/15

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