Research Article

Land Use/Cover Change Detection and Urban Sprawl Analysis in Bandar Abbas City, Iran

Table 1

Data used in this study.

DataPass and rowYearSpatial resolution/scale (m)

Aerial photos
56-30219561 : 20000
68-43819651 : 5000
74-66519751 : 15000
88-45919871 : 10000
279320011 : 10000
 Ultra CAM-d2013
Satellite images
 Landsat ETM+160/41Apr 07, 200315–30
 IRS (panchromatic
 band)
75-52-DJul 21, 20085.8
 GeoEye-1Dec 31, 20120.5
Secondary data
 3D topographic
 map
20011 : 2000
 DEM20011 m vertical
 Iranian censuses1976–1986–1991–1996–2006
 UN Iran censuses1995–2025