Study using satellite data finds rate of urban growth much greater than previously thought
Green Car Congress
MAY 10, 2020
An international team of researchers has used satellite images to map urban growth between 1985 and 2015. Each image captured 900 square meters of ground, a level of detail that allowed the scientists to study land-use change over time. In a paper in Nature Sustainability , they report that global urban extent has expanded by 9,687?km 2 per year—a rate four times greater than a previous estimate, suggesting an unprecedented rate of global urbanization.
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