Appropriate integration of remote sensing technologies into ecosystem services concepts
and practices leads to potential practical benefits for the protection of biodiversity and the …

Land use optimization is a promising approach to achieve urban sustainability. Despite the
increasing number of literature on land use optimization, a little investigation is made to …

Landscape fragmentation due to urban sprawl and industrialization has caused habitat loss
and threatened global biodiversity. However, the magnitude, spatial pattern, and …

Exploring the impact of land urbanization on ecosystem health is of great significance for
alleviating ecological degradation and achieving regional sustainable development. This …

Decades of intensifying human activities have caused dramatic changes in land use and
land cover (LULC) in the ecologically fragile areas of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, which have …

A clear understanding of the relationship between ecosystem services (ESs) and
urbanization provides new insight into urban landscape planning and decision making …

Identifying the driving mechanisms and forces of urban expansion is an important step
toward better understanding of the spatial pattern, process, and consequences of urban …

Rapid urbanization over the world's dense urban centers cause an enormous change in the
land use land cover (LULC) over a metropolitan area, which adversely affects the land …

As a key issue in China's urban development, urbanization creates increasing pressure on
the environment. Thus, a better understanding of the relationship between urbanization and …

The intensification of land surface temperature (LST) is a consequence of changes in land
use land cover (LULC). Variation of LST and LULC can be extracted from satellite images in …