The emergence of urban heat as a climate-induced health stressor is receiving increasing
attention among researchers, practitioners, and climate educators. However, the …

In today's world, satellite images are being utilized for the identification of built-up area,
urban planning, disaster management, insurance & tax assessment in an area, and many …

Impervious surface extraction with high accuracy is important for monitoring urban
expansion to sustainably manage the land resources and save the environment. In this …

Studies have shown that Sentinel-2 images have advantages over Landsat images in
impervious surface area (ISA) extraction. The performance of index-based methods can be …

The rapid infrastructure development in densely populated areas has had several negative
impacts. Increases in urbanization have led to increased LST, and urban ecological systems …

Since impervious surface is one of the core urban ecological indices, its high-precision time
series monitoring at regional or global scales is highly desirable. Spectral features, spatial …

Monitoring the spatiotemporal dynamics of building footprints (BF) is necessary for
understanding urbanization growth. It is a difficult task to extract residential sites, mainly BF …

Industrial activities induce various impacts on ecosystems that influence species richness
and distribution. An effective way to assess the resulting impacts on biodiversity lies in …

The accuracy and efficiency of impervious surface extraction using different algorithms vary
greatly, and algorithm applicability depends on the study area. Therefore, it is necessary to …

Accurate and up-to-date built-up area mapping is of great importance to the science
community, decision-makers, and society. Therefore, satellite-based, built-up area (BUA) …