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Urban Growth Simulations in a Medium-Sized City of Mangaluru, India, Through CA-Based SLEUTH Urban Growth Model
In the context of rapid urban growth in the small- and medium-sized cities of develo** countries, the current work attempts to calibrate the...
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Identification of Urban Growth Typology and its Association with Thermal Environment: A Study of Siliguri Urban Agglomeration, West Bengal, India
Rapid urbanization and consequent disappearance of vegetation cover and increase in impervious surface have accelerated the increase in land surface...
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A Harris Hawks optimization-based cellular automata model for urban growth simulation
This paper proposes an innovative cellular automata model based on the Harris Hawk Optimization (HHO) algorithm. HHO is an intelligent optimization...
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A study on the urban growth and dynamics over 16 major cities of India
Urban agglomerations across the world have witnessed haphazard and unprecedented growth in the recent past, giving rise to urban sprawling. This...
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The Impacts of Urban Growth Drivers on the Spatial and Temporal Pattern of City Expansion
Urban growth drivers are critical components of urbanization. Potential drivers only drive the city development, which leads to the formation of new...
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Urban growth Prediction for Sustainable Urban Management Using Markov Chain Model: A Study on Purulia Municipality, West Bengal, India
Rapid population concentration, unorganized built-up growth, lack of information for the urban expansion and land-use change etc., are the challenges...
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Inheritance of Geology and Geomorphology Amidst Urban Growth: Historical Development of the Tehran Metropolitan Area, Iran
Rapid population and spatial growth of major cities occur on foundations which primarily depends on the local geological, geomorphological, and...
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Delineation of urban growth boundary based on FLUS model under the perspective of land use evaluation in hilly mountainous areas
With rapid economic development, the size of urban land in China is expanding dramatically. The Urban Growth Boundary (UGB) is an expandable spatial...
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Assessment and Prediction of Urban Expansion Using CA-Based SLEUTH Urban Growth Model: A Case Study of Kolkata Metropolitan Area (KMA), West Bengal, India
Unplanned and rapidly increasing urbanization has been observed worldwide, especially in develo** countries which causes manifest many...
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Analyzing the effect size of urban growth driving factors: application of multilayer-perceptron Markov-chain model for the Riyadh city
This paper presents a predictive analysis of the urban growth in Riyadh city for the years 2030 and 2050. The Multi-Layer Perceptron Markov Chain...
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Map** and Prediction of Urban Growth using Remote Sensing, Geographic Information System, and Statistical Techniques for Tiruppur Region, Tamil Nadu, India
Tiruppur is one of India’s major textile cities in Tamil Nadu, India, and it is seeing fast urbanization. Tiruppur, like other cities throughout the...
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Exploring complex urban growth and land use efficiency in China’s developed regions: implications for territorial spatial planning
Developed regions in China have experienced rapid urban expansion and have consequently induced a series of challenging environmental issues since...
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Monitoring urban growth in Google Earth Engine from 1991 to 2021 and predicting in 2041 using CA-MARKOV and geometry: case study—Tehran
Urban growth leads to land use/land cover (LULC) changes, especially in develo** countries. Knowledge of land transition, especially agricultural...
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Prediction of land use and land cover changes (LULC) and urban growth analysis in Dhaka Metropolitan Area (DMA) using CA-Markov model and geospatial techniques
Land use and land cover (LULC) changes are one of the most important elements that shaped the global environmental setting. Day by day, the number of...
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A modelling approach of cellular automata-based artificial neural network for investigating dynamic urban expansion in Kolkata urban agglomeration
Urbanization is a rapidly expanding process in which towns and cities expand vertically and horizontally as a result of increased population density....
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Investigating the relationship between urban sprawl and urban heat island using remote sensing and machine learning approaches
Urbanization is triggering the expansion in an unplanned and unrestricted manner, growth of outward expansion for some areas. One such important...
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Peri-urban growth into natural hazard-prone areas: map** exposure transformation of the built environment in Nairobi and Nyeri, Kenya, from 1948 to today
Kenya experiences massive urban growth, also into natural hazard-prone areas, exposing settlements and the natural environment to riverine and...
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Analyzing Urban Drinking Water System Vulnerabilities and Locating Relief Points for Urban Drinking Water Emergencies
Urban water is known as a critical sector of urban environments which significantly impacts the life quality and wellbeing of reinstates. In the...
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Spatio-Temporal Variations and Effect of COVID-19 Led Lockdown on Urban Heat Island (UHI) and Urban Pollution Island (UPI) Over Delhi Region During 2017–2021
The urban environment is at substantial risk due to the pace of urbanization. There are two major components of the urban environment viz.
urban... 
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Impacts of Changes in Soil Moisture on Urban Heat Islands and Urban Breeze Circulations: Idealized Ensemble Simulations
Soil moisture plays important roles in land surface and hydrological processes, and its changes can greatly affect weather and climate. In this...
