Quantifying the Spatiotemporal Pattern of Urban Expansion and Hazard and Risk Area Identification in the Kaski District of Nepal

The present study utilized time-series Landsat images to explore the spatiotemporal dynamics of urbanization and land use/land-cover (LULC) change in the Kaski District of Nepal from 1988 to 2016. For the specific overtime analysis of change, the LULC transition was clustered into six time periods:...

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Main Authors: Bhagawat Rimal, Lifu Zhang, Hamidreza Keshtkar, Xuejian Sun, Sushila Rijal
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2018-03-01
Series:Land
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Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/7/1/37