Change detection from very-high-spatial-resolution optical remote sensing images: Methods, applications, and future directions

D Wen, X Huang, F Bovolo, J Li, X Ke… - … and Remote Sensing …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Change detection is a vibrant area of research in remote sensing. Thanks to increases in the
spatial resolution of remote sensing images, subtle changes at a finer geometrical scale can …

What is polluting Delhi's Air? A review from 1990 to 2022

SK Guttikunda, SK Dammalapati, G Pradhan, B Krishna… - Sustainability, 2023 - mdpi.com
Delhi's annual average PM2. 5 concentration in 2021–22 was 100 μg/m3—20 times more
than the WHO guideline of 5 μg/m3. This is an improvement compared to the limited …

High-spatiotemporal-resolution mapping of global urban change from 1985 to 2015

X Liu, Y Huang, X Xu, X Li, X Li, P Ciais, P Lin… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
High-resolution global maps of annual urban land coverage provide fundamental
information of global environmental change and contribute to applications related to climate …

Annual maps of global artificial impervious area (GAIA) between 1985 and 2018

P Gong, X Li, J Wang, Y Bai, B Chen, T Hu, X Liu… - Remote Sensing of …, 2020 - Elsevier
Artificial impervious areas are predominant indicators of human settlements. Timely,
accurate, and frequent information on artificial impervious areas is critical to understanding …

Mapping global urban boundaries from the global artificial impervious area (GAIA) data

X Li, P Gong, Y Zhou, J Wang, Y Bai… - Environmental …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Urban boundaries, an essential property of cities, are widely used in many urban studies.
However, extracting urban boundaries from satellite images is still a great challenge …

Satellite mapping of urban built-up heights reveals extreme infrastructure gaps and inequalities in the Global South

Y Zhou, X Li, W Chen, L Meng, Q Wu… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
Information on urban built-up infrastructure is essential to understand the role of cities in
shaping environmental, economic, and social outcomes. The lack of data on built-up heights …

Wilderness areas halve the extinction risk of terrestrial biodiversity

M Di Marco, S Ferrier, TD Harwood, AJ Hoskins… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
Reducing the rate of global biodiversity loss is a major challenge facing humanity 1, as the
consequences of biological annihilation would be irreversible for humankind 2, 3, 4 …

A global dataset of annual urban extents (1992–2020) from harmonized nighttime lights

M Zhao, C Cheng, Y Zhou, X Li… - Earth System Science …, 2021 - essd.copernicus.org
Understanding the spatiotemporal dynamics of global urbanization over a long time series is
increasingly important for sustainable development goals. The harmonized time-series …

Monitoring cropland abandonment with Landsat time series

H Yin, A Brandão Jr, J Buchner, D Helmers… - Remote Sensing of …, 2020 - Elsevier
Cropland abandonment is a widespread land-use change, but it is difficult to monitor with
remote sensing because it is often spatially dispersed, easily confused with spectrally similar …

Global spatio-temporally harmonised datasets for producing high-resolution gridded population distribution datasets

CT Lloyd, H Chamberlain, D Kerr, G Yetman… - Big earth …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Multi-temporal, globally consistent, high-resolution human population datasets provide
consistent and comparable population distributions in support of mapping sub-national …