Urban areas are heterogeneous. Transitions in architecture and building density, vegetation,
economic activity, and culture can occur at the scale of city blocks. Ecologists have been …

Functional zone reflects city's spatial structures, and as a carrier of social and economic
activities, it is of critical significance to urban management, resource allocation and …

The expansion of urban development into wildland areas can have significant
consequences, including an increase in the risk of structural damage from wildfire. Land-use …

La classification des pixels isolés n'exploite de façon adéquate ou convéniente ni les
connaissances des experts ni l'information contextuelle. Les techniques de traitement de …

Segmentation algorithms have already been recognized as a valuable and complementary
approach that similar to human operators perform a region-based rather than a point-based …

Land surface of the Earth has been changing as a result of human induced activities and
natural processes. Accurate representation of landscape characteristics and precise …

With the projected global increase of urbanization, pressure on land availability for urban
use will increase. In areas where urbanization is not controlled, the concentration of human …

Urban land use information is increasingly important for a variety of purposes. With their
increasing coverage and availability, airborne light detection and ranging (LiDAR) data, high …

Land cover classification qfvery high resahutian (VHF) imagery in urba areas is a extremehv
challenging task, because of the low intra-class (vithin-class) and high inter-class (between …

Despite recent advances in quantifying land-use/cover change (LUCC) transition potential,
transition rules are often not transparent and uncertainty is rarely made explicit. Here, we …