A novel approach for predicting the spatial patterns of urban expansion by combining the chi-squared automatic integration detection decision tree, Markov chain and cellular automata models in GIS

• Main Authors: Al-sharif, Abubakr A. A., Pradhan, Biswajeet
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Taylor & Francis 2015
• Online Access: http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/43531/1/abstract00.pdf; http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/43531/
• Institution: Universiti Putra Malaysia

Urban development is a continuous and dynamic spatio-temporal phenomenon associated with economic developments and growing populations. To understand urban expansion, it is important to establish models that can simulate urbanization process and its deriving factors behaviours, monitor deriving forc...