title: Land use/cover change detection and urban sprawl analysis in Bandar Abbas city, Iran.
abstract: The process of land use change and urban sprawl has been considered as a prominent characteristic of urban development. This study aims to investigate urban growth process in Bandar Abbas city, Iran, focusing on urban sprawl and land use change during 1956-2012. To calculate urban sprawl and land use changes, aerial photos and satellite images are utilized in different time spans. The results demonstrate that urban region area has changed from 403.77 to 4959.59 hectares between 1956 and 2012. Moreover, the population has increased more than 30 times in last six decades. The major part of population growth is related to migration from other parts the country to Bandar Abbas city. Considering the speed of urban sprawl growth rate, the scale and the role of the city have changed from medium and regional to large scale and transregional. Due to natural and structural limitations, more than 80% of barren lands, stone cliffs, beach zone, and agricultural lands are occupied by built-up areas. Our results revealed that the irregular expansion of Bandar Abbas city must be controlled so that sustainable development could be achieved.
authors.affiliation: Department of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM), Serdang, 43400 Selangor, Malaysia ; Department of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Islamic Azad University, Bandar Abbas, Iran.
authors.forename: Mohsen
authors.identifier: 0000-0002-8584-2797
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Dadras
authors.affiliation: Department of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM), Serdang, 43400 Selangor, Malaysia ; Geospatial Information Science Research Centre (GISRC), Faculty of Engineering, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 43400 Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia.
authors.forename: Helmi Zulhaidi Mohd
authors.initials: HZ
authors.lastname: Shafri
authors.affiliation: Department of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM), Serdang, 43400 Selangor, Malaysia.
authors.forename: Noordin
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Ahmad
authors.affiliation: Department of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM), Serdang, 43400 Selangor, Malaysia.
authors.forename: Biswajeet
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Pradhan
authors.affiliation: School of Physics, Universiti Sains Malaysia, 11800 Penang, Malaysia.
authors.forename: Sahabeh
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Safarpour
mesh_terms: D000383:Agriculture / Q000639:trends; D000465:Algorithms; D002947:Cities; D002958:City Planning / Q000379:methods; D003247:Conservation of Natural Resources / Q000379:methods; D040362:Geographic Information Systems / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D005843:Geography; D006801:Humans; D007492:Iran; D011158:Population Growth; D013997:Time Factors; D014507:Urbanization / Q000639:trends*