Quantifying Changes of Villages in the Urbanizing Beijing Metropolitan Region: Integrating Remote Sensing and GIS Analysis

Rapid urbanization has resulted in great changes in rural landscapes globally. Using remote sensing data to quantify the distribution of rural settlements and their changes has received increasing attention in the past three decades, but remains a challenge. Previous studies mostly focused on the re...

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Main Authors: Kun Wang, Weiqi Zhou, Kaipeng Xu, Hanmei Liang, Wenjuan Yu, Weifeng Li
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2017-05-01
Series:Remote Sensing
Subjects:
GIS
Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/9/5/448