Impervious surface area (ISA) is an important parameter for many environmental or
socioeconomic relevant studies. The unique characteristics of remote sensing data made it …

Although map** activities of urban land change have been widely carried out, detailed
information on urban development in time over rapid urbanization areas would have been …

Spatially consistent and up-to-date maps of human settlements are crucial for addressing
policies related to urbanization and sustainability, especially in the era of an increasingly …

The impervious surface area is a critical component of anthropogenic environment that can
be utilized as a proxy for assessing urbanization sustainability. However, there remains a …

Accurate and timely urban land map** is fundamental to supporting large area
environmental and socio-economic research. Most of the available large-area urban land …

The bio-geophysical effects of land cover classes are considered to be an important factor in
land surface temperature variations between urban and suburban areas. This means that …

The nighttime stable light (NSL) images on board the Operational Line-scan System (OLS)
of the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) are useful for extracting large-scale …

Monitoring the spatiotemporal dynamics of building footprints (BF) is necessary for
understanding urbanization growth. It is a difficult task to extract residential sites, mainly BF …

Numerous methods have been successfully applied to estimate the regional impervious
surface dynamics based on spectral or spatial information from remote sensing imagery …

Map** urban expansion and impervious surfaces (IS) has become a useful tool for
supporting watershed assessments. The lack of large-area time-series maps created the …