Measuring the 3-30-300 rule to help cities meet nature access thresholds

M Browning, DH Locke, C Konijnendijk… - Science of The Total …, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract The 3-30-300 rule offers benchmarks for cities to promote equitable nature access.
It dictates that individuals should see three trees from their dwelling, have 30% tree canopy …

Remote sensing of diverse urban environments: From the single city to multiple cities

G Chen, Y Zhou, JA Voogt, EC Stokes - Remote Sensing of Environment, 2024 - Elsevier
Remote sensing of urban environments has unveiled a significant shift from single-city
investigations to the inclusion of multiple cities. Originated from the ideas of the Remote …

[HTML][HTML] Greenness and excess deaths from heat in 323 Latin American cities: Do associations vary according to climate zone or green space configuration?

LH Schinasi, M Bakhtsiyarava, BN Sanchez… - Environment …, 2023 - Elsevier
Green vegetation may protect against heat-related death by improving thermal comfort. Few
studies have investigated associations of green vegetation with heat-related mortality in …

Potential drivers of urban green space availability in Latin American cities

M Bakhtsiyarava, M Moran, Y Ju, Y Zhou… - Nature Cities, 2024 - nature.com
Urban green spaces play a critical role in regulating air temperature, reducing air pollution
and enhancing people's well being. Yet, existing data and research on potential drivers of …

A review of crowdsourced geographic information for land-use and land-cover mapping: current progress and challenges

H Wu, Y Li, A Lin, H Fan, K Fan, J Xie… - International Journal of …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
The emergence of crowdsourced geographic information (CGI) has markedly accelerated
the evolution of land-use and land-cover (LULC) mapping. This approach taps into the …

Influence of the urban green spaces of Seville (Spain) on housing prices through the hedonic assessment methodology and geospatial analysis

E Ramírez-Juidías, JL Amaro-Mellado, JL Leiva-Piedra - Sustainability, 2022 - mdpi.com
The city of Seville (Spain) is made up of a historical network of pre-existing city overlaps,
which increase the economic and heritage value of certain urban areas. To date, green …

Annual Impervious Surface Data from 2001–2020 for West African Countries: Ghana, Togo, Benin and Nigeria

A Korah, MC Wimberly - Scientific Data, 2024 - nature.com
Impervious surface data are increasingly important for research and planning. Despite the
availability of global and local urban land cover maps, regional data are lacking in Africa …

Mapping the Future of Sustainable Development Through Cloud-Based Solutions: A Case Study of OpenStreetMap

M Ahmad, A Ali - Promoting Sustainable Management Through …, 2023 - igi-global.com
OSM plays a crucial role in advancing sustainable development across the economy,
environment, and society. It can foster economic sustainability by enabling infrastructure …

Integrating remote sensing with OpenStreetMap data for comprehensive scene understanding through multi-modal self-supervised learning

L Bai, X Zhang, H Wang, S Du - Remote Sensing of Environment, 2025 - Elsevier
OpenStreetMap (OSM) contains valuable geographic knowledge for remote sensing (RS)
interpretation. They can provide correlated and complementary descriptions of a given …

[HTML][HTML] Continent-wide urban tree canopy fine-scale mapping and coverage assessment in South America with high-resolution satellite images

J Guo, D Hong, Z Liu, XX Zhu - ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract Urban development in South America has experienced significant growth and
transformation over the past few decades. South America's urban development and trees …