Urbanization is persistent globally and has increasingly significant spatial and
environmental consequences. It is especially challenging in developing countries due to the …

Urban land use information that reflects socio-economic functions and human activities is
critically essential for urban planning, landscape design, environmental management …

Urban land use is key to rational urban planning and management. Traditional land use
classification methods rely heavily on domain experts, which is both expensive and …

Object-based image analysis (OBIA) has been widely used for land use and land cover
(LULC) mapping using optical and synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images because it can …

Accurate and reliable informal settlement maps are fundamental decision-making tools for
planning, and for expediting informed management of cities. However, extraction of spatial …

This article addresses the question of mapping building functions jointly using both aerial
and street view images via deep learning techniques. One of the central challenges here is …

Despite the need for quality land cover information, large-area, high spatial resolution land
cover mapping has proven to be a difficult task for a variety of reasons including large data …

Historical land use strongly influences current landscapes and ecosystems making maps of
historical land cover an important reference point. However, the earliest satellite-based land …

Ecological land is a type of land that has considerable ecological value. Understanding the
evolution of urban ecological land in Zhuhai, China, holds great significance for revealing …

Accurate predictions of land-use change are important for supporting planning. Cellular
automata (CA) models are widely used to simulate real-world urban land-use change but …