Understanding an urbanizing planet: Strategic directions for remote sensing

Z Zhu, Y Zhou, KC Seto, EC Stokes, C Deng… - Remote Sensing of …, 2019 - Elsevier
Scientific contributions from remote sensing over the last fifty years have significantly
advanced our understanding of urban areas. Key contributions of urban remote sensing …

Making better use of accuracy data in land change studies: Estimating accuracy and area and quantifying uncertainty using stratified estimation

P Olofsson, GM Foody, SV Stehman… - Remote sensing of …, 2013 - Elsevier
The area of land use or land cover change obtained directly from a map may differ greatly
from the true area of change because of map classification error. An error-adjusted estimator …

A review on spectral indices for built-up area extraction using remote sensing technology

R Kaur, P Pandey - Arabian Journal of Geosciences, 2022 - Springer
The rapidly occurring urbanization is associated with urban land use change dynamics. The
conversion of natural land surfaces to artificial impervious built-up surfaces in urban clusters …

Applying built-up and bare-soil indices from Landsat 8 to cities in dry climates

A Rasul, H Balzter, GRF Ibrahim, HM Hameed… - Land, 2018 - mdpi.com
Arid and semi-arid regions have different spectral characteristics from other climatic regions.
Therefore, appropriate remotely sensed indicators of land use and land cover types need to …

Spatiotemporal reflectance fusion via sparse representation

B Huang, H Song - IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a novel model for blending remote sensing data of high spatial
resolution (HSR), taken at infrequent intervals, with those available frequently but at low …

Enhanced built-up and bareness index (EBBI) for map** built-up and bare land in an urban area

AR As-Syakur, IWS Adnyana, IW Arthana, IW Nuarsa - Remote sensing, 2012 - mdpi.com
Remotely sensed imagery is a type of data that is compatible with the monitoring and
map** of changes in built-up and bare land within urban areas as the impacts of …

Built-up area extraction using Landsat 8 OLI imagery

SS Bhatti, NK Tripathi - GIScience & remote sensing, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
The normalized difference built-up index (NDBI) has been useful for map** urban built-up
areas using Landsat Thematic Mapper (TM) data. The applicability of this index to the newer …

BCI: A biophysical composition index for remote sensing of urban environments

C Deng, C Wu - Remote Sensing of Environment, 2012 - Elsevier
Understanding urban environments and their spatio-temporal changes is essential for
regional and local planning and environmental management. To facilitate monitoring and …

Map** and assessment of vegetation types in the tropical rainforests of the Western Ghats using multispectral Sentinel-2 and SAR Sentinel-1 satellite imagery

JJ Erinjery, M Singh, R Kent - Remote Sensing of Environment, 2018 - Elsevier
Detailed map** and regular monitoring of tropical rainforests is important for conservation
and management of highly fragmented tropical rainforest habitats and biodiversity. Several …

Using Landsat and nighttime lights for supervised pixel-based image classification of urban land cover

R Goldblatt, MF Stuhlmacher, B Tellman… - Remote Sensing of …, 2018 - Elsevier
Reliable representations of global urban extent remain limited, hindering scientific progress
across a range of disciplines that study functionality of sustainable cities. We present an …