Study using satellite data finds rate of urban growth much greater than previously thought

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By mmillikinMay 10, 2020, 6:00 am243 pts
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…

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