Overview
- Provides in detail a comprehensive urban form (Sprawl vs. Compact) assessment process, involving physical and functional aspects
- Proposes a new concept regarding compact city, i.e. Trend of Compactness (ToC), which provides detailed information about growth pattern of compactness
- Explains urban growth and land use change prediction using various statistical-based, neighbourhood-based etc. modeling approaches
- Includes a new hybrid model for compact land use pattern
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Introduction
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Practice/Implementation
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Dr. Pradhan received the B.Sc. degree with honors from Berhampur University (India), the M.Sc. degree from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in Bombay (India), and the M.Tech. degree in Civil Engineering from the IIT in Kanpur (India) and Dresden University of Technology (Germany). He received the Ph.D. degree in GIS and Geomatics Engineering from the University Putra Malaysia. From 2008 to 2010 he was a recipient of the Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship from Germany. In 2011, he received his Habilitation in Remote Sensing from Dresden University of Technology (Germany). Since March 2015, he is serving as the Humboldt Ambassador Scientist for the Alexander Von Humboldt Foundation (Germany). Dr. Pradhan is also the recipient of the prestigious German Academic Exchange Research (DAAD) Fellowship Award, Saxony State Fellowship from 1999 to 2002, Keith Atherton Research Award, and Georg Forster Research Award from German Government. He is currently Faculty Member of Dept. of Civil Engineering, University Putra Malaysia. He has more than sixteen years of teaching, research, consultancy and industrial experience. Out of his more than 430 articles, more than 280 have been published in science citation index (SCI/SCIE) technical journals. He has written two books in GIS data compression and disaster management and edited three volumes, and written 12 book chapters. He specializes in Remote Sensing, GIS application, and soft computing techniques in natural hazard and environmental problems. His published work has been widely cited by his peers with more than 4800 citations in SCOPUS database. His H-index is 48. He has completed 21 research projects. Dr. Pradhan is a member of many professional bodies such as Committee of Space Research (COSPAR), Senior Member of IEEE, United Nations Outer Space Research Programme (UNOOSA) and many more. He is currently the Chair of the IEEE-GRSS Malaysia Chapter. He sits as board member of many national programs in Malaysia and South-East Asia. He is a regular reviewer for many international bodies alike Dutch Research Council, European Science Foundation, Austrian Science Foundation, Research Council UK (RCUK) and many more. He has been also active with teaching and supervising of many Ph.D., MSc. and undergraduate students. Dr. Pradhan has widely travelled abroad visiting more than 60 countries to present his research findings. Countries involved are Germany, USA, Netherlands, UK, Switzerland, Turkey, South Korea, Japan, Indonesia, Thailand and many more.
He is listed as the World’s most Highly Cited researcher by ISI Thomson Reuter’s Report in 2016 as one of the world’s most influential minds.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Spatial Modeling and Assessment of Urban Form
Book Subtitle: Analysis of Urban Growth: From Sprawl to Compact Using Geospatial Data
Editors: Biswajeet Pradhan
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-54217-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-54216-4Published: 18 May 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-85344-4Published: 14 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-54217-1Published: 08 May 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 331
Number of Illustrations: 36 b/w illustrations, 172 illustrations in colour
Topics: Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns), Geographical Information Systems/Cartography, Civil Engineering