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http://dx.doi.org/10.7780/kjrs.2007.23.3.221

An Assessment of Urbanization Using Historic Satellite Photography: Columbus Metropolitan Area, Ohio, 1965

Kim, Kee-Tae (Vexcel Corporation)
Kim, Jung-Hwan (School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Yonsei University)
Jayakumar, S. (School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Yonsei University)
Sohn, Hong-Gyoo (School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Yonsei University)

Publication Information

Korean Journal of Remote Sensing / v.23, no.3, 2007 , pp. 221-227 More about this Journal

Abstract

We present an analysis of urban development and growth with reconnaissance satellite photographs of Columbus metropolitan area acquired by the Corona program in 1965. A two-dimensional polynomial linear transformation was used to rectify the photos against United State Geological Survey (USGS) Large-scale Digital Line Graph (DLG) data georeferenced to Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) coordinates. The boundaries of the Columbus metropolitan area were extracted from the rectified Corona image mosaic using a Bayesian approach to image segmentation. The inferred 1965 urban boundaries were compared with 1976 USGS Land Use and Land Cover (LULC) data and boundaries derived from 1988 and 1994 Landsat TM images. The urban area in and around Columbus approximately doubled from 1965 to 1994 ( ${\sim}110%$ ) along with population growth from 1960 to 1998 ( ${\sim}50%$ ). Most of the urban expansion results from development of residential units.

Keywords

Corona; Columbus; Urban sprawl; Landuse changes;

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