Visualization of Urban Growth Pattern in Chennai Using Geoinformatics and Spatial Metric

 
               Bharath H. Aithal a,b, Ramachandra .T.V a,b,c,*             

a Energy & Wetlands Research Group, Center for Ecological Sciences [CES], b Centre for Sustainable Technologies (astra),
c Centre for infrastructure, Sustainable Transportation and Urban Planning [CiSTUP], Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, Karnataka, 560 012, India
*Corresponding author: cestvr@ces.iisc.ernet.in

Acknowledgement

We are grateful to NRDMS Division, The Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of India; ISRO-IISc Space Technology Cell, Indian Institute of Science; Centre for infrastructure, Sustainable Transportation and Urban Planning (CiSTUP), Indian Institute of Science for the financial and infrastructure support.  Remote sensing data were downloaded from public domain (http://glcf.umiacs.umd.edu/data).  We are also thankful to National Remote Sensing Centre, Hyderabad (http://nrsc.gov.in) for providing the latest data of IRS 1D
Citation :Bharath H. Aithal, Ramachandra T. V, 2016. Visualization of Urban Growth Pattern in Chennai Using Geoinformatics and Spatial Metrics, J Indian Soc Remote Sens, DOI 10.1007/s12524-015-0482-0
* Corresponding Author :
  Dr. T.V. Ramachandra
Energy & Wetlands Research Group, Centre for Ecological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore – 560 012, India.
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