Fig. 4: Three styles/maturity stages of urban land expansion. | Nature Communications

Fig. 4: Three styles/maturity stages of urban land expansion.

From: Mapping global urban land for the 21st century with data-driven simulations and Shared Socioeconomic Pathways

Fig. 4: Three styles/maturity stages of urban land expansion.

This scatter plot of decadal observations of all countries concurrently shows data from three different decades (1980–2010). The two axis variables are shown for visual clarity. The actual classification step in the modeling framework uses more variables (more information in “Methods”). (Source data are provided as a Source Data file).

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