Tracking Urban Expansion Using Random Forests for the Classification of Landsat Imagery (1986–2015) and Predicting Urban/Built-Up Areas for 2025: A Study of the Kumasi Metropolis, Ghana

Kumasi is a nodal city and functions as the administrative and economic capital of the Ashanti region in Ghana. Rapid urbanization has been experienced inducing the transformation of various Land Use Land Cover (LULC) types into urban/built-up areas in Kumasi. This paper aims at tracking spatio-temp...

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Main Authors: Bernard Fosu Frimpong, Frank Molkenthin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2021-01-01
Series:Land
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/10/1/44