Urbanization is currently one of the most pressing environmental issues which cuts across
all countries at unprecedented rates and intensities, with far reaching consequences on …

Akure has since it became the administrative headquarters of Ondo State in 1976 been
witnessing rapid developmental changes in terms of physical landscape, city growth and …

One major phenomenon in our contemporary era is the high rate of urban growth as a result
of landuse/landcover changes and which needs to be monitored for planning and …

The assessment of the land use/land cover expansion that occurred in the area over a
period of thirty years is the utmost priority of this research work. Multi temporal Landsat …

A rapid increase in population and urban development has direct impacts on the natural
environment of peri-urban areas of big cities, especially in the developing countries. This …

Monitoring and assessing LULC change at the periurban calls for detail and accurate
information. Although, assessing LULC changes in developing countries requires urgent …

This research paper examined the changes in land use/land cover of Abeokuta, Nigeria
between 1984 and 2015 using Multi-Temporal Landsat Remote Sensing paired with …

The unprecedented growth of population and urban area of the cities in developing
countries have put enormous stress on the natural environment which results in the …

Urban land uses had been increasingly subjected to changes of different forms, sorts and
types since urban explosion of the 1970s. People move to cities en-mass from the rural …

Rapid urbanization rates impact significantly on the nature of Land Cover patterns of the
environment, which has been evident in the depletion of vegetal reserves and in general …