Identification of multi-temporal urban growth patterns with a modified urban growth index: Case study of three fast growing cities in the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS)

Identification of urban growth patterns is essential to better understand urbanization and its eco-environmental consequences. Landscape indices, such as the simple urban growth index (S) and the landscape expansion index (LEI), are commonly used to identify urban growth patterns, but most of them a...

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Main Authors: Hui Cao, Jianglong Chen, Cheng Chen, Pingxing Li
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2022-09-01
Series:Ecological Indicators
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1470160X22006781