[HTML][HTML] Finer-resolution map** of global land cover: Recent developments, consistency analysis, and prospects

L Liu, X Zhang, Y Gao, X Chen, X Shuai… - Journal of Remote …, 2021 - spj.science.org
Land-cover map** is one of the foundations of Earth science. As a result of the combined
efforts of many scientists, numerous global land-cover (GLC) products with a resolution of 30 …

[HTML][HTML] Estimating population and urban areas at risk of coastal hazards, 1990–2015: how data choices matter

K MacManus, D Balk, H Engin… - Earth System …, 2021 - essd.copernicus.org
The accurate estimation of population living in the low-elevation coastal zone (LECZ)–and at
heightened risk from sea level rise–is critically important for policymakers and risk managers …

High-spatiotemporal-resolution map** of global urban change from 1985 to 2015

X Liu, Y Huang, X Xu, X Li, X Li, P Ciais, P Lin… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
High-resolution global maps of annual urban land coverage provide fundamental
information of global environmental change and contribute to applications related to climate …

A new generation of the United States National Land Cover Database: Requirements, research priorities, design, and implementation strategies

L Yang, S **, P Danielson, C Homer, L Gass… - ISPRS journal of …, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract The US Geological Survey (USGS), in partnership with several federal agencies,
has developed and released four National Land Cover Database (NLCD) products over the …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] The urban morphology on our planet–Global perspectives from space

XX Zhu, C Qiu, J Hu, Y Shi, Y Wang, M Schmitt… - Remote Sensing of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Urbanization is the second largest mega-trend right after climate change. Accurate
measurements of urban morphological and demographic figures are at the core of many …

NASA's Black Marble nighttime lights product suite

MO Román, Z Wang, Q Sun, V Kalb, SD Miller… - Remote Sensing of …, 2018 - Elsevier
NASA's Black Marble nighttime lights product suite (VNP46) is available at 500 m resolution
since January 2012 with data from the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) …

Breaking new ground in map** human settlements from space–The Global Urban Footprint

T Esch, W Heldens, A Hirner, M Keil… - ISPRS Journal of …, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract Today, approximately 7.2 billion people inhabit the Earth and by 2050 this number
will have risen to around nine billion, of which about 70% will be living in cities. The …

Map** local climate zones for a worldwide database of the form and function of cities

B Bechtel, PJ Alexander, J Böhner, J Ching… - … International Journal of …, 2015 - mdpi.com
Progress in urban climate science is severely restricted by the lack of useful information that
describes aspects of the form and function of cities at a detailed spatial resolution. To …

A global dataset of annual urban extents (1992–2020) from harmonized nighttime lights

M Zhao, C Cheng, Y Zhou, X Li… - Earth System Science …, 2021 - essd.copernicus.org
Understanding the spatiotemporal dynamics of global urbanization over a long time series is
increasingly important for sustainable development goals. The harmonized time-series …