Correction to: Environ Syst Res (2019) 8:23 https://doi.org/10.1186/s40068-019-0152-2

Following publication of the original article (Mansouri Daneshvar et al. 2019), the corrected text with the reference citations are given below:

  • In Introduction, last paragraph, the first sentence should read, “The present paper aims to indicate an integrated procedure of factor analysis and analytical network process named as F’ANP model (established by Zebardast 2013).”

  • In “Urban sprawl modeling” section, the sentence should read, “The present study generates an urban sprawl modeling for 3 years based on geospatial data and statistical hybrid procedure of factor analysis and analytical network process (F’ANP) (Zebardast 2013)”.