Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 211 pages) : illustrations |
Contents |
Introduction : Usefulness of spatial analysis with remote sensing and GIS in sub-Sahara Africa / Yuji Murayama -- Modeling spatial processes of urban growth in an Africa city : a case study of Nairobi / Charles N. Mundia, Masamu Aniya and Yuji Murayama -- Markov-cellular automata approach for modelling land use/cover changes in an African rural landscape : a case study in the Bindura District, Zimbabwe / Courage Kamusoko, Masamu Aniya and Munyaradzi Manjoro -- Urban land use change and landscape fragmentation in Lagos, Nigeria / Ademola K. Braimoh, Takashi Onishi and Peter J. Marcotullio -- A multistage-artificial neural network and expert system (MANNES) approach for classifying urban built-up areas based on ALOS data : the case of Harare, Zimbabwe / Courage Kamusoko and Munyaradzi Manjoro -- Spatial-temporal patterns and driving forces of land use/cover changes in an African wildlife sanctuary / Charles N. Mundia and Yuji Murayama -- Exploratory woodland fragmentation analysis based on mathematical morphology and landscape metrics / Courage Kamusoko and Enos Chikati -- Exploratory land use/cover change analysis in a municipality in Kenya using Markov chain model / Charles N. Mundia, Kenneth M. Mubea and Moses K. Gachari -- Open source web mapping technologies : can developing countries leverage and tap the potential they portend? / David N. Kuria and Douglas E. Musiega -- SDI requirements for transport planning : a case study of Kampala, Uganda / Mazzi Lydia K. Ndandiko and Anthony Gidudu -- Remote sensing and GIS : current status and future prospects in sub-Sahara Africa / Charles N. Mundia and Moses K. Gachari |
Notes |
Includes index |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Notes |
Print version record |
Subject |
Remote sensing -- Africa, Sub-Saharan
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Geographic information systems -- Africa, Sub-Saharan
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Land use -- Africa, Sub-Saharan
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TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Remote Sensing & Geographic Information Systems.
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Geographic information systems
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Geography
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Land use
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Remote sensing
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Fernerkundung.
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Geoinformationssystem.
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Landnutzung.
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SUBJECT |
Africa, Sub-Saharan -- Geography
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Sub-Saharan Africa
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Afrika.
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Kamusoko, Courage
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Mundia, Charles Ndegwa
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Murayama, Yūji, 1953-
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ISBN |
9781617615122 |
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1617615129 |
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