Monitoring urbanization-driven LCLUC hotspots and urban development patterns across Africa
BUILDING ON SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOAL INDICATOR 11.3.1. FOR IMPROVED UTILITY AND GUIDANCE
- Urbanization is a leading cause of LCLUC globally, although Africa is currently leading these trends, particularly within small to medium sized, or secondary, cities.
- UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) may contribute to global monitoring of urbanization, but methodological gaps limit the consistent application of SDG Indicators.
- We combined remotes sensing products with open-source software to develop automated approaches for delineating urban areas across broad extents and consistently through time.
- Urbanization-driven LCLUC hotspots were identified and further analyzed across Ethiopia, Nigeria, and South Africa.
