Assessments of urban growth in the Tampa Bay watershed using remote sensing data
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Abstract
Urban development has expanded rapidly in the Tampa Bay area of west-central Florida over the past century. A major effect associated with this population trend is transformation of the landscape from natural cover types to increasingly impervious urban land. This research utilizes an innovative approach for mapping urban extent and its changes through determining impervious surfaces from Landsat satellite remote sensing data. By 2002, areas with subpixel impervious surface greater than 10% accounted for approximately 1800 km2, or 27 percent of the total watershed area. The impervious surface area increases approximately three-fold from 1991 to 2002. The resulting imperviousness data are used with a defined suite of geospatial data sets to simulate historical urban development and predict future urban and suburban extent, density, and growth patterns using SLEUTH model. Also examined is the increasingly important influence that urbanization and its associated imperviousness extent have on the individual drainage basins of the Tampa Bay watershed.
| Publication type | Article |
|---|---|
| Publication Subtype | Journal Article |
| Title | Assessments of urban growth in the Tampa Bay watershed using remote sensing data |
| Series title | Remote Sensing of Environment |
| DOI | 10.1016/j.rse.2005.04.017 |
| Volume | 97 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Year Published | 2005 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Elsevier |
| Contributing office(s) | Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center |
| Description | 13 p. |
| First page | 203 |
| Last page | 215 |
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