Microsoft released a US-wide vector building dataset in 2018. Although the vector building layers provide relatively accurate geometries, their use in large-extent geospatial analysis …
Urbanization, population growth, and climate change have several impacts on the environment including the extreme increase in temperature in urban areas, which is also …
Continental to global scale mapping of the human settlement extent based on earth observation satellite data has made considerable progress. Nevertheless, the current …
The National Land Cover Database (NLCD) provides time-series data characterizing the land surface for the United States, including land cover and tree canopy cover (NLCD-TC) …
Large-scale gridded population datasets available at the global or continental scale have become an important source of information in applications related to sustainable …
It is now well-recognized that urbanization strongly impacts wildlife communities and populations. However, we typically do not know which feature (s) affect individual species …
Methods Concept of local climate zones. LCZ typology has been adopted as a baseline description of global urban areas into recognisable types that are formally defined as …