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The number and size of urban settlements are increasing in all the continents of the world at a rapid pace. Urban sprawl is associated not only with changes in landcover and area, but also ecological, climate and social transformations. Mapping the growth and spread of urban areas is important. Remote sensing has long been used to map human settlements. Today the availability of a large number of...
India conducts its census every ten years. Census data is collected manually in India with enumerators visiting every household in the country. Being such a vast country (in terms of area) and with a population of more than 1 billion, manual data collection is a laborious and expensive process. In response, this paper proposes a surrogate census method using DMSP-OLS night-time images. The study focuses...
Urbanization, that is the movement of population from rural to urban locations, is a process that has been occurring for hundreds of years, but is increasingly prevalent in today's world. In 2008 most of the global population was resident in urban areas. It has been predicted that in the coming years, an increasing number of people will be living in cities; especially in the developing countries within...
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