Title :
Sustainable urban development: the MURBANDY project of the Centre for Earth Observation (CEO)
Author :
Lavalle, Carlo ; Ehrlich, Daniele ; Annoni, Alessandro
Author_Institution :
Space Applications Inst. of the Joint Res. Centre, Ispra, Italy
Abstract :
The project on Monitoring Urban Dynamics (MURBANDY) is being carried out by the Centre for Earth Observation programme, in support to the environment and spatial planning policies of the European Union, with the main objective to provide information on changes and dynamics of European landscapes. MURBANDY will quantify and analyse structural changes in urban areas and in their surrounding belts to understand past evolution and predict future trends of urban developments and their impact of the quality of environment. The project started in early 1998 and is expected to produce first results by July 1998. This paper describes the scope and the methods of the MURBANDY project
Keywords :
geophysical techniques; remote sensing; terrain mapping; town and country planning; CEO; Centre for Earth Observation; Europe; MURBANDY project; Monitoring Urban Dynamics; change; city; geophysical measurement technique; land surface; land use; landscape; remote sensing; sustainable urban development; terrain mapping; town planning; urban areas; Cities and towns; Earth; Electronic mail; Europe; Image databases; Information systems; Monitoring; Satellites; Urban areas; Urban planning;
Conference_Titel :
Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium Proceedings, 1998. IGARSS '98. 1998 IEEE International
Conference_Location :
Seattle, WA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-4403-0
DOI :
10.1109/IGARSS.1998.702282
