GE获取影像的收获-0817解析.ppt

The goal of this letter is threefold： First, provide a quantitative assessment of the spatial and temporal patterns of growth in a sample of 142 cities in China using remote sensing data spanning 1978–2010 (figure 1). The second goal is to compare rates and patterns of urban expansion in coastal cities, to those in western cities(Lai 2002). Finally, the third goal is to connect these trends to population data since it is the growth and distribution of population that ultimately drive policy in many countries. Because China’s first wave of urbanization has been focused