Urban impervious surface (UIS) is a key parameter in climate change, environmental
change, and sustainability. UIS extraction has been evolving rapidly in the past decades …

Urban green structures (UGS) play important roles in enhancing urban ecosystems by
providing benefits such as mitigating the urban heat island effect, improving air quality …

Many efforts have been made to map developed impervious surface from remotely sensed
information in the last two decades. The US Geological Survey (USGS) developed the …

Image segmentation is an important process and a prerequisite for object-based image
analysis, but segmenting an image into meaningful geo-objects is a challenging problem …

The urban heat island (UHI) is an increasingly widespread phenomenon of concern to the
wellbeing and the health of populations living in urban environments. The SUHI (Surface …

Accurate, detailed, and long-term urban land use mapping is crucial for urban planning,
environmental assessment, and health evaluation. Despite previous efforts, mapping …

Trees in Arctic cities perform not only important provisional and regulating ecosystem
services, but also bring predominantly settler population closer to the visual images and …

Impervious surfaces, as a key indicator of urban spatial environmental factors, have great
significance in exploring the distribution law and spatial pattern of rural-urban fringe areas …

Accurate and timely monitoring of functional urban impervious surfaces (FUISs), such as
ports, roads, and buildings, is essential yet challenging for complex coastal cities due to their …

To provide a comprehensive understanding of the spatial distribution of forest carbon
reserves, this study explores carbon storage and its spatial pattern in the horizontal and …