Download or read book Assessment of the Socio-Environmental Impacts of the Urban Expansion Using GIS and Remote Sensing in the City of Guayaquil, Ecuador written by Erika P. Jimenez Rivera and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thesis investigates the impacts of the urban expansion from 1990 to 2010 in Guayaquil, Ecuador using geospatial technologies. It incorporates census and land cover data to identify the social and environmental repercussions through Hot Spot Analysis, land cover classification, and Markov chains model.