Urban Sprawl Mapping Using Spatial Metrics Method
Sewunet Shiferaw
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Urban Sprawl Mapping Using Spatial Metrics Method

A case Study of Addis Ababa City and Its Surrounding Areas

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This study was conducted on Addis Ababa metropolitan area as a fulfillment for MSc degree from Addis Ababa University, with the objective of measuring urban sprawl. The researcher used spatial and zonal metric tools to study the form and pattern of urban development from categorical maps. In this study, ERDAS Imagine 14, FRAGSTATS 4.2, ZonalMetrics and ArcGIS 10.2 software programs were used for data processing and urban sprawl measurement. ERDAS Imagine software used for image preprocessing, enhancement, transformation, classification and accuracy assessment activities. FRAGSTATS applied to c...