Remote sensing of urban green spaces: A review

AR Shahtahmassebi, C Li, Y Fan, Y Wu, M Gan… - Urban Forestry & Urban …, 2021 - Elsevier
A knowledge of the characteristics of urban green spaces (UGSs) such as their abundance,
spatial distribution and species composition, has an important role in a range of fields such …

A systematic review of the relationship between urban forest quality and socioeconomic status or race

G Allegretto, D Kendal, EJ Flies - Urban Forestry & Urban Greening, 2022 - Elsevier
The quantity of urban forests in cities is critical for biodiversity conservation and human
health, and is known to be distributed unequally. Increasingly, the quality of urban forests …

Integration of sentinel-1 and sentinel-2 for classification and LULC mapping in the urban area of Belém, eastern Brazilian Amazon

PA Tavares, NES Beltrão, US Guimarães, AC Teodoro - Sensors, 2019 - mdpi.com
In tropical regions, such as in the Amazon, the use of optical sensors is limited by high cloud
coverage throughout the year. As an alternative, Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) products …

[HTML][HTML] The effects of land use on spatial pattern of urban green spaces and their cooling ability

M Masoudi, PY Tan, M Fadaei - Urban Climate, 2021 - Elsevier
While both composition and configuration of urban green spaces (UGS) have been shown to
affect the cooling effect of UGS, more studies have focused on how land use affects UGS …

Greening residential quarters in China: What are the roles of urban form, socioeconomic factors, and biophysical context?

L Hu, C Fan, Z Cai, W Liao, X Li - Urban Forestry & Urban Greening, 2023 - Elsevier
Residential greenspace has great intracity variations. Its driving factors have been widely
investigated in Western countries (eg, in Europe and North America), where residential …

Himalayan hotspot with Alien Weeds: a case study of biological spectrum, phenology, and diversity of weedy plants of high altitude mountains in District Kupwara of …

SM Haq, M Hamid, FA Lone, B Singh - Proceedings of the National …, 2021 - Springer
Authentic certification, documentation, and ecological characterization of weed flora are of
paramount importance for future studies that would help to formulate strategies for their …

Wealth and land use drive the distribution of urban green space in the tropical coastal city of Haikou, China

HL Zhang, JP Cubino, MM Nizamani, AJ Harris… - Urban Forestry & Urban …, 2022 - Elsevier
Urban green spaces (UGSs) provide a plethora of ecosystem services that benefit humans
and wildlife within cities. UGS both promotes and is affected by overall urban ecological …

[HTML][HTML] Assessing the macro-scale patterns of urban tree canopy cover in Brazil using high-resolution remote sensing images

J Guo, Z Liu, XX Zhu - Sustainable Cities and Society, 2024 - Elsevier
This study creates a 0.5 m resolution urban tree canopy (UTC) cover dataset using high-
resolution remote sensing images based on the deep learning method to clarify urban tree …

[HTML][HTML] Habitat heterogeneity explains cultivated and spontaneous plant richness in Haikou City, China

HL Zhang, MM Nizamani, JP Cubino, AJ Harris… - Ecological …, 2023 - Elsevier
Recent urbanization and human activities have led to the fragmentation of natural landscape
patches and reduced the connectivity and degradation of urban ecosystems and …

Effects of urbanization on woody plant phylogenetic diversity and its associations with landscape features in the high latitude northern hemisphere region, Northeast …

Y Yang, C Wei, L Xiao, Z Zhong, Q Li, H Wang… - Science of The Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
Urbanization is one of the primary drivers of terrestrial modification, with marked biological
homogenization worldwide but relatively poor knowledge of woody phylogenetic diversity …