Monitoring urban expansion and land use/land cover changes of Shanghai metropolitan area during the transitional economy (1979–2009) in China

Urban areas currently cover only 3% of the Earth’s land surface but over half of the world’s population now resides in cities (Herold et al. 2003; Liu and Lathrop 2002; United Nations 2001 https://t.co/3t3zCXAJcC