A Comparative Analysis of “Urban Expansion” using Remotely Sensed Data of CORINE Land Cover and Global Human Settlement Layer in Estonia

Najmeh Mozaffaree Pour, Tõnu Oja

2020

Abstract

Monitoring urban expansion is important because the policy makers in cities must detect the changes to provide services and manage resources for urban dwellers. In this study we analyse the built-up areas extracted from very high-resolution images of two important databases of CORINE land cover and GHSL; Built-Up Grid to map urban expansion at local level of cities of Tallinn and Tartu in their context (County) in Estonia. The reason for selecting these datasets was the representation of an available temporal data in many timespans which allowed extracting urban expansion in our case studies. The analysis was carried out over a subset of these datasets in ArcGIS environment and the data of GHSL-Built-Up Grid was extracted from Google Earth Engine platform. Therefore, the results showed that there was an increase in the amounts of built-up areas and its rate in these two counties while based on these two databases the results were not similar in areas and cells but similar in rate and growth patterns.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Mozaffaree Pour N. and Oja T. (2020). A Comparative Analysis of “Urban Expansion” using Remotely Sensed Data of CORINE Land Cover and Global Human Settlement Layer in Estonia.In Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Geographical Information Systems Theory, Applications and Management - Volume 1: GISTAM, ISBN 978-989-758-425-1, pages 143-150. DOI: 10.5220/0009195101430150

in Bibtex Style

@conference{gistam20,
author={Najmeh Mozaffaree Pour and Tõnu Oja},
title={A Comparative Analysis of “Urban Expansion” using Remotely Sensed Data of CORINE Land Cover and Global Human Settlement Layer in Estonia},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Geographical Information Systems Theory, Applications and Management - Volume 1: GISTAM,},
year={2020},
pages={143-150},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0009195101430150},
isbn={978-989-758-425-1},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Geographical Information Systems Theory, Applications and Management - Volume 1: GISTAM,
TI - A Comparative Analysis of “Urban Expansion” using Remotely Sensed Data of CORINE Land Cover and Global Human Settlement Layer in Estonia
SN - 978-989-758-425-1
AU - Mozaffaree Pour N.
AU - Oja T.
PY - 2020
SP - 143
EP - 150
DO - 10.5220/0009195101430150