Integrated multi-tier LCLUC mapping for improved ecosystem services assessment within urbanizing landscapes across African countries
DISSECTING AND ANALYZING URBANIZATION PATTERNS AT MULTIPLE SCALES
- Rapid urbanization is occurring within secondary cities, particular in Africa, which need more data and analyses to understand how urban change in occurring and its implications.
- Secondary cities provide great socio-economic opportunities, but rapid growth creates challenges for management, sustainable development, and provisioning of resources.
- Multi-tiered approaches are needed to merge the monitoring of broad urbanization patterns with characterizations of heterogenous urban land cover within cities consistently.
- The current era of remote sensing technologies provides opportunities for multi-scale data fusions to analyze urbanization patterns and implications across scales.
