Metropolitan areas worldwide have grown rapidly and are usually surrounded by peri-urban
zones that are neither urban nor rural. Despite widespread use of the term 'peri-urban' …

Remote sensing has evolved to become a key tool for various fields of environmental
analysis, thus actively informing policy across areas and domains. To evaluate the degree to …

Rapid technological advances in airborne hyperspectral and lidar systems paved the way
for using machine learning algorithms to map urban environments. Both hyperspectral and …

Both compact and dispersed green cities are considered sustainable urban forms, yet some
developments accompanied with these planning paradigms seem problematic in times of …

The increasing impact of humans on land and ongoing global population growth requires an
improved understanding of land cover (LC) and land use (LU) processes related to …

Healthy street trees provide important ecosystem services to cities, but are under increasing
stress from urbanisation and climate change, including drought. Traditional field …

By 2050, two-third of the world's population will live in cities. In this study, we develop a
framework for analyzing urban growth-related imperviousness in North Rhine-Westphalia …

The effects of drought can manifest in vegetation across an array of physiological responses
and time scales. In metropolitan areas, vegetation provides shading and cooling during hot …

In the past few decades, the management of urban spaces with appropriate tools has been
in constant discussion due to the plethora of new technologies that have emerged for …

Urban trees affect urban climate via three processes: shading effect, evapotranspiration and
wind resistance. However, large differences existed in the performance of different tree …