Map** global urban boundaries from the global artificial impervious area (GAIA) data

X Li, P Gong, Y Zhou, J Wang, Y Bai… - Environmental …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
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 …

Satellite map** of urban built-up heights reveals extreme infrastructure gaps and inequalities in the Global South

Y Zhou, X Li, W Chen, L Meng, Q Wu… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
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 …

40-Year (1978–2017) human settlement changes in China reflected by impervious surfaces from satellite remote sensing

P Gong, X Li, W Zhang - Science Bulletin, 2019 - Elsevier
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 …

Detecting ecological changes with a remote sensing based ecological index (RSEI) produced time series and change vector analysis

H Xu, Y Wang, H Guan, T Shi, X Hu - Remote Sensing, 2019 - mdpi.com
Increasing human activities have caused significant global ecosystem disturbances at
various scales. There is an increasing need for effective techniques to quantify and detect …

Understanding spatio-temporal patterns of land use/land cover change under urbanization in Wuhan, China, 2000–2019

H Zhai, C Lv, W Liu, C Yang, D Fan, Z Wang, Q Guan - Remote Sensing, 2021 - mdpi.com
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 …

GISD30: Global 30-m impervious surface dynamic dataset from 1985 to 2020 using time-series Landsat imagery on the Google Earth Engine platform

X Zhang, L Liu, T Zhao, Y Gao… - Earth System Science …, 2021 - essd.copernicus.org
Accurately map** impervious surface dynamics has great scientific significance and
application value for urban sustainable development research, anthropogenic carbon …

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 …

A deep learning method for building height estimation using high-resolution multi-view imagery over urban areas: A case study of 42 Chinese cities

Y Cao, X Huang - Remote Sensing of Environment, 2021 - Elsevier
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 …

Annual dynamics of global land cover and its long-term changes from 1982 to 2015

H Liu, P Gong, J Wang, N Clinton… - Earth System Science …, 2020 - essd.copernicus.org
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 …

[HTML][HTML] Advances in high-resolution land surface satellite products: A comprehensive review of inversion algorithms, products and challenges

S Liang, T He, J Huang, A Jia, Y Zhang, Y Cao… - Science of Remote …, 2024 - Elsevier
For many applications, raw satellite observations need to be converted to high-level
products of various essential environmental variables. While numerous products are …