Urban boundaries, an essential property of cities, are widely used in many urban studies.
However, extracting urban boundaries from satellite images is still a great challenge …

Impervious surfaces are the most significant feature of human settlements. Timely, accurate,
and frequent information on impervious surfaces is critical in both social-economic and …

Information on urban built-up infrastructure is essential to understand the role of cities in
sha** environmental, economic, and social outcomes. The lack of data on built-up heights …

Increasing human activities have caused significant global ecosystem disturbances at
various scales. There is an increasing need for effective techniques to quantify and detect …

Exploring land use structure and dynamics is critical for urban planning and management.
This study attempts to understand the Wuhan development mode since the beginning of the …

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 …

Land cover is the physical material at the surface of the Earth. As the cause and result of
global environmental change, land cover change (LCC) influences the global energy …

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

Abstract Knowledge of building height is critical for understanding the urban development
process. High-resolution optical satellite images can provide fine spatial details within urban …

For many applications, raw satellite observations need to be converted to high-level
products of various essential environmental variables. While numerous products are …