Les statuts morphologiques d’urbanisation des communes de Kinshasa en République Démocratique du Congo

Land Cover Dynamics along the Urban–Rural Gradient of the Port-au-Prince Agglomeration (Republic of Haiti) from 1986 to 2021

“…To characterize the spatiotemporal dynamics of the different zones of the urban-rural gradient, the land cover was defined in urban, peri-urban, and rural zones according to the decision tree of the definitions of the zones present in the urban-rural gradient [11]. This decision tree, based on morphological characteristics, was preferred owing to its rapidity of execution, simplicity, and closeness to the ground reality, where there is a heterogeneous mix of land cover [6,43]. It should be noted that the urban zone is characterized by the dominance and continuity of the built-up area, which is otherwise dense.…”

“…If the co-dominance of urban and peri-urban is less than rural, the area is recognized as rural. Finally, if the co-dominance of urban and peri-urban is higher than rural, the area is considered peri-urban [43].…”

“…Morphological status of the municipalities along the urban-rural gradient of the Port-au-Prince agglomeration according to [43] typology. These results are derived from the supervised classification of the Landsat image mosaics of 2021 based on the maximum likelihood algorithm.…”