Urban impervious surface (UIS) offers potentially valuable information for the development
of sustainable urban management strategies and environmental change monitoring actions …

As the second largest island in Japan, Hokkaido provides precious land resources for the
Japanese people. Meanwhile, as the food base of Japan, the gradual decrease of the …

Oil palm plantation mapping is an important task in land planning and management in
Malaysia. Most existing studies were based on satellite images using traditional machine …

Urban areas represent the primary source region of greenhouse gas emissions. Mapping
urban areas is essential for understanding land cover change, carbon cycles, and climate …

The Yellow River Basin (YRB), located in the northern region of China, has a fragile
ecological environment. With the construction of urbanization and ecological restoration …

The expansion of urban areas due to population increase and economic expansion creates
demand and depletes natural resources, thereby causing land use changes in the main …

Impervious surface has become one of the key factors of regional environmental problems
and disasters. There rises an urgent need for mapping large-scale high-resolution …

Abstract The Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) and Google Earth (GE) RGB images have
ultra-high spatial resolution. But it is difficult to get a high classification accuracy due to the …

Accurate mapping urban impervious surfaces (UIS) from satellite images is crucial for
understanding urban land cover change directions and addressing UIS change-induced …

Impervious surfaces caused by rapid urbanization affect the environment and increase the
disaster risk. Currently, most articles have extracted impervious surfaces by manual …