Remote sensing of urban green spaces: A review

AR Shahtahmassebi, C Li, Y Fan, Y Wu, M Gan… - Urban Forestry & Urban …, 2021 - Elsevier
A knowledge of the characteristics of urban green spaces (UGSs) such as their abundance,
spatial distribution and species composition, has an important role in a range of fields such …

[HTML][HTML] Map** ecosystem services in urban and peri-urban areas. A systematic review

P Pereira, M Inácio, L Pinto, M Kalinauskas… - Geography and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Urban and peri-urban ecosystems are subjected to an intense impact. The demand for
ecosystem services (ES) is higher in these areas. Nevertheless, despite the anthropogenic …

Contrasting inequality in human exposure to greenspace between cities of Global North and Global South

B Chen, S Wu, Y Song, C Webster, B Xu… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract The United Nations specified the need for “providing universal access to
greenspace for urban residents” in the 11th Sustainable Development Goal. Yet, how far we …

A 30-year (1984–2013) record of annual urban dynamics of Bei**g City derived from Landsat data

X Li, P Gong, L Liang - Remote Sensing of Environment, 2015 - Elsevier
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 …

How does urban expansion impact people's exposure to green environments? A comparative study of 290 Chinese cities

Y Song, B Chen, MP Kwan - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2020 - Elsevier
Understanding the difference of greenspace in different urban areas is a critical requirement
for maintaining urban natural environment and lessening environmental inequality …

Variance of the impact of urban green space on the urban heat island effect among different urban functional zones: A case study in Wuhan

X Ke, H Men, T Zhou, Z Li, F Zhu - Urban Forestry & Urban Greening, 2021 - Elsevier
The urban heat island effect (UHI) is frequently observed in cities, and is associated with
environmental effects. Urban green space (UGS) has been shown to play an important role …

[HTML][HTML] Impact of rapid urban expansion on green space structure

ANM Nor, R Corstanje, JA Harris, T Brewer - Ecological Indicators, 2017 - Elsevier
Rapid urban expansion has had a significant impact on green space structure. A wide
variety of modelling approaches have been tested to simulate urban expansion; however …

The spatio-temporal trends of urban green space and its interactions with urban growth: Evidence from the Yangtze River Delta region, China

J Wang, Y Zhang, X Zhang, M Song, J Ye - Land Use Policy, 2023 - Elsevier
The role of urban green space (UGS) in urban sustainability is attracting increasing attention
from researchers. How to achieve greener cities in urban development is an urgent problem …

UGS-1m: Fine-grained urban green space map** of 34 major cities in China based on the deep learning framework

Q Shi, M Liu, A Marinoni, X Liu - Earth System Science Data …, 2022 - essd.copernicus.org
Urban green space (UGS) is an important component in the urban ecosystem and has great
significance to the urban ecological environment. Although the development of remote …

[HTML][HTML] Beyond green environments: Multi-scale difference in human exposure to greenspace in China

B Chen, Y Tu, S Wu, Y Song, Y **, C Webster… - Environment …, 2022 - Elsevier
Greenspace exposure metrics can allow for comparisons of green space supply across time,
space, and population groups, and for inferring patterns of variation in opportunities for …