Remote sensing of night light emissions in the visible band offers a unique opportunity to
directly observe human activity from space. This has allowed a host of applications including …

Remote Sensing (RS) has been used in urban mapping for a long time; however, the
complexity and diversity of urban functional patterns are difficult to be captured by RS only …

Climate change and the rapid urbanization process can trigger the current urban heat island
effect. An urban heat island is categorized by temperature variation between urban and rural …

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 …

Urban microclimates have undergone extreme changes against the current backdrop of
global warming and rapid urbanization. Although several studies on the spatiotemporal …

Land-use classification based on spaceborne or aerial remote sensing images has been
extensively studied over the past decades. Such classification is usually a patch-wise or …

Urban heat island (UHI) is a major anthropogenic alteration on Earth environments and its
geospatial pattern remains poorly understood over large areas. Using MODIS data from …

作为驱动地表与大气之间能量交换的关键物理量, 地表温度在众多领域中都发挥着重要作用,
包括气候变化, 环境监测, 蒸散发估算以及地热异常勘探等. Landsat 热红外数据因其时间连续性 …

Urban impervious surface coverage is an important parameter to understand effects of hydro-
environment on the process of urbanization. Impervious surfaces have altered urban …

High-resolution urban land use maps have important applications in urban planning and
management, but the availability of these maps is low in countries such as China. To …