Modeling urban growth and land use/land cover change in the Houston Metropolitan Area from 2002 - 2030

The Houston-Galveston-Brazoria Consolidated Metropolitan Statistical Area (Houston CMSA) has experienced rapid population growth during the past decades and is the only major US metropolitan area with no zoning regulations. We use SLEUTH, a spatially explicit cellular automata model, to simulate fu...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Oguz, Hakan
Other Authors: Klein, Andrew G.
Format: Others
Language:en_US
Published: Texas A&M University 2005
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/2231