Modelling urban dynamics is mostly pronounced in metropolitan areas, where spatial information science could contribute to efforts of understanding the pattern and future characteristics. This paper discusses the past, current and future trend of land-use dynamics of European part of the Istanbul Metropolitan. Studies on urban growth modelling state that, there is no consensus on the selection ...

The potential of intrinsic parameters to estimate geospatial data quality on Voluntary Geographic Information (VGI) platforms is a recurrent theme in Cartography. spatial-temporal distribution these very heterogeneous, depending several factors such as input availability, number, and motivation volunteers, especially developing countries. most recent approaches have been aiming detail temporal ...

Purpose. From October 2013—before implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA)—to November 2016, Medicaid enrollment grew by 27 percent. However, very little attention has been paid to date to how changes in Medicaid enrollment vary within states across the rural-urban continuum. This brief reports and analyzes changes in enrollment in metropolitan, micropolitan, and rural (noncore) areas in...

This study aims to analyze land use patterns using time-series satellite images of Seoul Metropolitan Area for the past 30 years, and present a macroscopic model for predicting future land use patterns using Markov Chain based probability model, and finally examine its applicability to Korea. Several Landsat MSS and TM images were used to acquire land-use change patterns and dynamic land-use ch...

– Conventional segregation indices indicate complete integration when the proportion of minorities in a metropolitan area is replicated in any subarea. However, this would not occur, even absent discrimination, because majorities and minorities have different distributions of other residence-determining characteristics. Segregation indices derived from predictions of commuting times for blacks,...

Most U.S. metropolitan regions have experienced urban ‘‘sprawl,’’ or the outward spreading of urban development from city centers. For cities lying in areas prone to severe weather, the sprawl phenomenon exposes greater numbers of developed areas and inhabitants to a variety of thunderstorm hazards. This study’s principal goal is to determine how urbanization growth patterns affect a region’s v...

This paper observes and compares patterns of above average rates of lung cancer occurrences in the Sydney metropolitan area with typical patterns of air pollution circulation within the Sydney basin, as well as with the locations of primary source and ‘sink’ areas of toxic air emissions. It establishes that there is a strong coincidence, which is unlikely be entirely due to the demographics of ...