Growth Type and Functional Trajectories: An Empirical Study of Urban Expansion in Nanjing, China.

Drawing upon the Landsat satellite images of Nanjing from 1985, 1995, 2001, 2007, and 2013, this paper integrates the convex hull analysis and common edge analysis at double scales, and develops a comprehensive matrix analysis to distinguish the different types of urban land expansion. The results s...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Jianglong Chen, Jinlong Gao, Feng Yuan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4742073?pdf=render