Combining expert and crowd-sourced training data to map urban form and functions for the continental US

M Demuzere, S Hankey, G Mills, W Zhang, T Lu… - Scientific data, 2020 - nature.com
Although continental urban areas are relatively small, they are major drivers of
environmental change at local, regional and global scales. Moreover, they are especially …

A rasterized building footprint dataset for the United States

MP Heris, NL Foks, KJ Bagstad, A Troy, ZH Ancona - Scientific data, 2020 - nature.com
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 …

Mining and modeling the direct and indirect causalities among factors affecting the Urban Heat Island severity using structural machine learned Bayesian networks

G Assaf, X Hu, RH Assaad - Urban Climate, 2023 - Elsevier
Urbanization, population growth, and climate change have several impacts on the
environment including the extreme increase in temperature in urban areas, which is also …

Towards a large-scale 3D modeling of the built environment—joint analysis of TanDEM-X, Sentinel-2 and open street map data

T Esch, J Zeidler, D Palacios-Lopez, M Marconcini… - Remote Sensing, 2020 - mdpi.com
Continental to global scale mapping of the human settlement extent based on earth
observation satellite data has made considerable progress. Nevertheless, the current …

Assessing the accuracy and potential for improvement of the national land cover database's tree canopy cover dataset in urban areas of the conterminous United …

M Pourpeikari Heris, KJ Bagstad, AR Troy… - Remote Sensing, 2022 - mdpi.com
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) …

Towards an improved large-scale gridded population dataset: A Pan-European study on the integration of 3D settlement data into population modelling

D Palacios-Lopez, T Esch, K MacManus, M Marconcini… - Remote Sensing, 2022 - mdpi.com
Large-scale gridded population datasets available at the global or continental scale have
become an important source of information in applications related to sustainable …

The way “urbanization” is defined has strong implications for its effects on mammal abundance

MKP Poisson, F Gebresenbet, AR Butler, P Tate… - Urban …, 2024 - Springer
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 …

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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 …