City-descriptive input data for urban climate models: Model requirements, data sources and challenges

V Masson, W Heldens, E Bocher, M Bonhomme… - Urban Climate, 2020 - Elsevier
Cities are particularly vulnerable to meteorological hazards because of the concentration of
population, goods, capital stock and infrastructure. Urban climate services require multi …

Emerging issues in mapping urban impervious surfaces using high-resolution remote sensing images

Z Shao, T Cheng, H Fu, D Li, X Huang - Remote Sensing, 2023 - mdpi.com
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 …

Development of a global 30 m impervious surface map using multisource and multitemporal remote sensing datasets with the Google Earth Engine platform

X Zhang, L Liu, C Wu, X Chen, Y Gao… - Earth System …, 2020 - essd.copernicus.org
The amount of impervious surface is an important indicator in the monitoring of the intensity
of human activity and environmental change. The use of remote sensing techniques is the …

Impervious surface growth and its inter-relationship with vegetation cover and land surface temperature in peri-urban areas of Delhi

D Dutta, A Rahman, SK Paul, A Kundu - Urban Climate, 2021 - Elsevier
Spatial changes in urban areas are closely associated with the increasing impervious land
and thus, monitoring the spatio-temporal changes in impervious area is crucial for identifying …

Extraction of high-precision urban impervious surfaces from sentinel-2 multispectral imagery via modified linear spectral mixture analysis

R Xu, J Liu, J Xu - Sensors, 2018 - mdpi.com
This study explores the performance of Sentinel-2A Multispectral Instrument (MSI) imagery
for extracting urban impervious surface using a modified linear spectral mixture analysis …

Hierarchical fusion of optical and dual-polarized SAR on impervious surface mapping at city scale

G Sun, J Cheng, A Zhang, X Jia, Y Yao… - ISPRS Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
The combined use of the data from Sentinel-1 (S1) dual-polarized Synthetic Aperture Radar
(SAR) and Sentinel-2 (S2) Multispectral Sensor Images (MSI) has been successfully applied …

Assessing the impact of urbanization on direct runoff using improved composite CN method in a large urban area

C Li, M Liu, Y Hu, T Shi, M Zong, MT Walter - International journal of …, 2018 - mdpi.com
Urbanization is one of the most widespread anthropogenic activities, which brings a range of
physical and biochemical changes to hydrological system and processes. Increasing direct …

An impervious surface spectral index on multispectral imagery using visible and near-infrared bands

S Su, J Tian, X Dong, Q Tian, N Wang, Y Xi - Remote Sensing, 2022 - mdpi.com
The accurate mapping of urban impervious surfaces from remote sensing images is crucial
for understanding urban land-cover change and addressing impervious-surface-change …

[HTML][HTML] Mapping dynamic peri-urban land use transitions across Canada using Landsat time series: Spatial and temporal trends and associations with socio …

A Czekajlo, NC Coops, MA Wulder, T Hermosilla… - … , environment and urban …, 2021 - Elsevier
Transformations of agriculture and natural lands to urban use are dominant and well known
effects of urbanization, but consistent and reliable methods to map regional-scale land …

[HTML][HTML] Composite extraction index to enhance impervious surface information in remotely sensed imagery

F Zhang, Y Gao - The Egyptian Journal of Remote Sensing and Space …, 2023 - Elsevier
Fast and accurate impervious surface extraction is important to monitor urban dynamics and
ensure people's well-being. In order to improve the extraction accuracy of impervious …