Monitoring global biodiversity from space through remotely sensing geospatial patterns has
high potential to add to our knowledge acquired by field observation. Although a framework …

Urban green spaces (UGS) are effective mitigations to excessive urban heat. Landscape
metrics (LMs) have been widely used to assess how UGS configuration, ie, edge and area …

Quantifying landscape characteristics and linking them to ecological processes is one of the
central goals of landscape ecology. Landscape metrics are a widely used tool for the …

This paper analyzes land use change, urbanization and their impact on the change in
landscape pattern in Tabriz metropolitan area (TMA) during the time period from 1996 to …

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 …

The accurate analysis of landscape pattern and ecological process characteristics in rapidly
urbanized areas is crucial for formulating policies related to differentiated urban …

Rapid urbanization has altered the environment and climate, necessitating a thorough grasp
of urban thermal dynamics for sustainable development. The lack of detailed urban …

Urbanization induces spatial and environmental changes. Monitoring and understanding the
nature of these changes is crucial to achieving sustainable urban development imperatives …

The increased availability of mapped environmental data calls for better tools to analyze the
spatial characteristics and information contained in those maps. Publicly available, user …

Environmental managers have been striving to optimize landscape structure to achieve a
sustained supply of ecosystem services (ESs). However, we still lack a full understanding of …