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Urban sprawl and its impact on sustainable urban development: a combination of remote sensing and social media data

Zhenfeng Shaoa State Key Laboratory of Information Engineering in Surveying, Mapping and Remote Sensing, Wuhan University, Wuhan, ChinaView further author information
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Neema S. Sumarib Department of Mathematics, Informatics and Computational Sciences, Solomon Mahlangu College of Science and Education, Sokoine University of Agriculture, Morogoro, TanzaniaCorrespondence[email protected]
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Aleksei Portnovc Department of Land Law and State Registration of Real Estate, Moscow State University of Geodesy and Cartography (Miigaik), Moscow, RussiaView further author information
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Fanan Ujohd Center for Sustainability and Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (SaRIC), London South Bank University, London, UKORCID Iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-2554-0815View further author information
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Walter Musakwae Department of Town and Regional Planning, University of Johannesburg, Gauteng, South AfricaORCID Iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-2173-0072View further author information
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Paulo J. Mandelaf Department of Lands and Geoscience, Urban Development and Management Services Tanzania Limited, Morogoro, TanzaniaORCID Iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-8571-3613View further author information
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Pages 241-255 | Received 19 May 2020, Accepted 21 Jun 2020, Published online: 28 Jul 2020

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