Understanding Spatiotemporal Forms, Triggers and Consequences of Urban Dy- namics in Taipei: 1990-2005

Presented at the Conference on the Socio-Economic Transition of China: Opportunities and Threats, 2014 Apr 03-06, Palacký University Department of Asian Studies, Olomouc Czech Republic, 2014. Current presentation consists in 2 parts: 1) Overview of the environmental research problem, urbanization and characteristics of Taipei. Consequences of urban sprawl for the global cities, such as Taipei. 2) Detailed technical description of the GIS part: remote sensing data capture, pre-processing, algorithm processing, image classification and spatial analysi