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 …

Many novel research algorithms have been developed to analyze urban heat island (UHI)
and UHI regional impacts (UHIRIP) with remotely sensed thermal data tables. We present a …

Accurately mapping impervious surface dynamics has great scientific significance and
application value for urban sustainable development research, anthropogenic carbon …

As an important production base for livestock and a unique ecological zone in China, the
northeast Tibetan Plateau has experienced dramatic land use/land cover (LULC) changes …

Using more than three million Landsat satellite images, this research developed the first
global impervious surface area (GISA) dataset from 1972 to 2019. Based on 120,777 …

Remote sensing technology has been frequently used to obtain information on changes in
urban land cover because of its vast spatial coverage and timeliness of observation. Block …

Abstract Ecosystem Service Valuation (ESV) is a process of evaluating and quantifying the
monetary values of ESs and their functions. Using both biophysical and spatially explicit …

Land-cover change has been identified as an important cause or driving force of global
climate change and is a significant research topic. Over the past few decades, global land …

As rapid urbanization has drastically and widely altered the Earth's surface, urbanization has
become an important contributor to changes in land surface temperature (LST) and the …

Change detection (CD) is a hot topic and has been applied in many fields. Very high
resolution (VHR) images contain the rich spatial information, and are widely used in CD …