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Title Recent advances in remote sensing and GIS in Sub-Sahara Africa / editors, Courage Kamusoko, Charles Ndegwa Mundia, Yuji Murayama
Published Hauppauge, NY : Nova Science Publishers, ©2010

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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
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Subject Remote sensing -- Africa, Sub-Saharan
Geographic information systems -- Africa, Sub-Saharan
Land use -- Africa, Sub-Saharan
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Remote Sensing & Geographic Information Systems.
Geographic information systems
Geography
Land use
Remote sensing
Fernerkundung.
Geoinformationssystem.
Landnutzung.
SUBJECT Africa, Sub-Saharan -- Geography
Subject Sub-Saharan Africa
Afrika.
Form Electronic book
Author Kamusoko, Courage
Mundia, Charles Ndegwa
Murayama, Yūji, 1953-
ISBN 9781617615122
1617615129