Port city sustainability: A review of its research trends

Y Zheng, J Zhao, G Shao - Sustainability, 2020 - mdpi.com
In recent years, with the development of society, the awareness of environmental protection
for people has been increasing. While ports promote the economic development and …

[HTML][HTML] Urban green infrastructure and ecosystem services in sub-Saharan Africa

MJ Du Toit, SS Cilliers, M Dallimer, M Goddard… - Landscape and Urban …, 2018 - Elsevier
Africa is urbanizing at an astonishing rate. To meet many of the Sustainable Development
Goals there will be a requirement for cities in sub-Saharan Africa to plan for, and manage …

A comparison of the economic benefits of urban green spaces estimated with NDVI and with high-resolution land cover data

W Li, JDM Saphores, TW Gillespie - Landscape and Urban Planning, 2015 - Elsevier
Many cities around the world have undertaken greening programs (eg, planting urban trees,
adding or enhancing parks, providing incentives for green roofs) to benefit from the …

[HTML][HTML] The utility of sentinel-2 spectral data in quantifying above-ground carbon stock in an urban reforested landscape

M Mngadi, J Odindi, O Mutanga - Remote Sensing, 2021 - mdpi.com
The transformation of the natural landscape into an impervious surface due to urbanization
has often been considered an important driver of environmental change, affecting essential …

[HTML][HTML] The utility of Planetscope spectral data in quantifying above-ground carbon stock in an urban reforested landscape

C Matiza, O Mutanga, J Odindi, M Mngadi - Ecological Informatics, 2024 - Elsevier
Urbanization, deforestation, and forest degradation significantly contribute to atmospheric
carbon emissions and heightened climate change risks. Reforestation, a sustainable long …

Estimating aboveground net primary productivity of reforested trees in an urban landscape using biophysical variables and remotely sensed data

M Mngadi, J Odindi, O Mutanga, M Sibanda - Science of the Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
Recently, urban reforestation programs have emerged as potential carbon sinks and climate
mitigates in urban landscapes. Thus, spatially explicit information on net primary productivity …

Exploring the impact of green space health on runoff reduction using NDVI

HW Kim, JH Kim, W Li, P Yang, Y Cao - Urban Forestry & Urban Greening, 2017 - Elsevier
This study examines the impact of green space health on local flooding based on the
analysis of eighty-two watersheds in four Texas metropolitan statistical areas: Dallas …

Urban sprawl assessment and modeling using landsat images and GIS

S Mohammady, MR Delavar - Modeling Earth Systems and Environment, 2016 - Springer
Nowadays, urban sprawl phenomenon have been seen in many of cities in the develo**
and developed countries. Urban sprawl is considered as a particular kind of urban growth …

Examining spatial distribution and dynamic change of urban land covers in the Brazilian Amazon using multitemporal multisensor high spatial resolution satellite …

Y Feng, D Lu, EF Moran, LV Dutra, MF Calvi… - Remote Sensing, 2017 - mdpi.com
The construction of the Belo Monte hydroelectric dam began in 2011, resulting in rapidly
increased population from less than 80,000 persons before 2010 to more than 150,000 …

Taxonomic, phylogenetic and functional diversity of bird assemblages in urban green spaces: null model analyses, temporal variation and ecological drivers

R Nava-Díaz, I Zuria, R Pineda-López - Frontiers in Ecology and …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Urban expansion is a pervasive driver of biodiversity loss. To understand the effects of
urbanization on diversity, we investigated the response of bird taxonomic, phylogenetic, and …