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Matamyo Simwanda
Researcher at Copperbelt University
Publications - 26
Citations - 702
Matamyo Simwanda is an academic researcher from Copperbelt University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Urbanization & Urban planning. The author has an hindex of 10, co-authored 24 publications receiving 321 citations. Previous affiliations of Matamyo Simwanda include Oregon State University & University of Tsukuba.
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Sentinel-2 Data for Land Cover/Use Mapping: A Review
Darius Phiri,Matamyo Simwanda,Serajis Salekin,Vincent R. Nyirenda,Yuji Murayama,Manjula Ranagalage +5 more
TL;DR: Sentinel-2 has a positive impact on land cover/use monitoring, specifically in monitoring of crop, forests, urban areas, and water resources and the literature shows that the use of Sentinel-2 data produces high accuracies with machine-learning classifiers such as support vector machine (SVM) and Random forest (RF).
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Spatial Analysis of Surface Urban Heat Islands in Four Rapidly Growing African Cities
TL;DR: It is recommended that urban planners and policy makers should consider mitigating the UHI effect by restoring the urban ecosystems in the remaining open spaces in the urban area and further incorporate strategic combinations of impervious surfaces and green spaces in future urban and landscape planning.
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Spatiotemporal patterns of urban land use change in the rapidly growing city of Lusaka, Zambia: Implications for sustainable urban development
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the spatiotemporal patterns of urban land use change in the rapidly urbanising city of Lusaka, Zambia, during the 1990-2000 and 2000-2010 periods, using geospatial tools and techniques.
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The Impacts of Landscape Changes on Annual Mean Land Surface Temperature in the Tropical Mountain City of Sri Lanka: A Case Study of Nuwara Eliya (1996–2017)
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the changes in the landscape and their impacts on LST intensity (LSTI) in the tropical mountain city of Nuwara Eliya, Sri Lanka.
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Spatial Forecasting of the Landscape in Rapidly Urbanizing Hill Stations of South Asia: A Case Study of Nuwara Eliya, Sri Lanka (1996-2037)
Manjula Ranagalage,Ruci Wang,M. H. J. P. Gunarathna,Dmslb Dissanayake,Yuji Murayama,Matamyo Simwanda +5 more
TL;DR: The results show that Nuwara Eliya has been directly affected by rapid urban development and the observed landscape changes will continue in a similar pattern in the future, confirming a significant increase and decrease of built-up and agricultural land, respectively, from 2017 to 2037.