This study analyzes land use dynamics, spatiotemporal patterns of ecosystem service value (ESV), and the forces driving growth in the Hangzhou metropolitan area (HMA) in China....
This paper estimates econometric models of the socioeconomic drivers of urban land use change in the Pearl River Delta, China. The panel data used to estimate the models are...
Yao Yao, Dongsheng Chen, Le Chen, Huan Wang, Qingfeng Guan
Urban extent data play an important role in urban management and urban studies, such as monitoring the process of urbanization and changes in the spatial configuration of urban...
This paper presents an integrated study of urbanization trends in Shijiazhuang City, Hebei Province of China, by using Geographical Information Systems (GIS) and remote sensing....
Qingzhu Gao, Yu’e Li, Yunfan Wan, Erda Lin, Wei Xiong, Wangzha Jiangcun, Baoshan Wang, Wenfu Li
This study selected vegetation cover as the main evaluation index, calculated the grassland degradation index (GDI) and established the remote sensing monitoring and evaluation...
Zhenfeng Shao, Huyan Fu, Deren Li, Orhan Altan, Tao Cheng
Urban impervious surface coverage is an important parameter to understand effects of hydro-environment on the process of urbanization. Impervious surfaces have altered urban...
Ting Ma, Chenghu Zhou, Tao Pei, Susan Haynie, Junfu Fan
Urbanization process involving increased population size, spatially extended land cover and intensified economic activity plays a substantial role in anthropogenic environment...
Frank Paul, Solveig H. Winsvold, Andreas Kääb, Thomas Nagler and Gabriele Schwaizer
Mapping of glacier extents from automated classification of optical satellite images has
become a major application of the freely available images from Landsat. A widely applied...
Ye Wei, Hongxing Liu, Wei Song, Bailang Yu, Chunliang Xiu
Previous studies demonstrated that DMSP-OLS stable nighttime light data are useful data source for
delineating urban areas. However, the nighttime light data acquired in...
Satellite-observed night-time light in urban areas has been widely used as an indicator for socioeconomic development and light pollution. Up to present, the diurnal dynamics of...
In early 2013, the first global Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (NPP) visible
infrared imaging radiometer suite (VIIRS) nighttime light composite data were
released....
Radiance-calibrated DMSP-OLS nighttime lights data of China
acquired between March 1996 and January-February 1997
were evaluated for their potential as a source of population...