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2 Citations
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14 October 2024

As urbanization accelerates, characteristics of urban spatial expansion play a significant role in the future utilization of land resources, the protection of the ecological environment, and the coordinated development of population and land. In this...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,636 Views
18 Pages

Recognition and characterization of built-up areas in the Siberian sub-Arctic urban territories of Yakutsk are dependent on two main factors: (1) the season (snow and ice from October to the end of April, the flooding period in May, and the summertim...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
10,698 Views
19 Pages

17 December 2015

In 1986, the Government of Vietnam implemented free market reforms known as Doi Moi (renovation) that provided private ownership of farms and companies, and encouraged deregulation and foreign investment. Since then, the economy of Vietnam has achiev...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
5,444 Views
14 Pages

6 February 2021

As a result of high-density urbanization and climate change, both the frequency and intensity of extreme urban rainfall are increasing. Drainage systems are not designed to cope with this increase, and as a result, floods are becoming more common in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
6,355 Views
27 Pages

24 January 2021

Suburbanization, as a set of several factors, influences and changes the landscape structure of smaller municipalities in the hinterland of larger cities. The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the built-up areas related to suburbanization within t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
4,016 Views
32 Pages

29 January 2021

Focusing on the uncertainties of climate change and its effects on the built environment, on the energy responsibilities of residential building stock and on the dichotomy between the transformation and preservation of cultural heritage with a long-t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
3,606 Views
17 Pages

Built-Up Area Change Detection Using Multi-Task Network with Object-Level Refinement

  • Song Gao,
  • Wangbin Li,
  • Kaimin Sun,
  • Jinjiang Wei,
  • Yepei Chen and
  • Xuan Wang

16 February 2022

The detection and monitoring of changes in urban buildings, as a major place for human activities, have been considered profoundly in the field of remote sensing. In recent years, comparing with other traditional methods, the deep learning-based meth...

  • Article
  • Open Access
100 Citations
4,578 Views
21 Pages

28 March 2022

In the context of uneven development studies of China, urban built-up area changes are the index of the impact of power, as the local government is the only party that is able to acquire agricultural land and convert it to construction urban land. Ex...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,554 Views
14 Pages

Spatial and Temporal Changes of Urban Built-Up Area in the Yellow River Basin from Nighttime Light Data

  • Jingxu Wang,
  • Shike Qiu,
  • Jun Du,
  • Shengwang Meng,
  • Chao Wang,
  • Fei Teng and
  • Yangyang Liu

13 July 2022

Nighttime light (NTL) images obtained by the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer (VIIRS) mounted on the National Polar-orbiting Partnership (NPP) could objectively represent human activities and instantly identify urban shapes on a temporal and spati...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,143 Views
20 Pages

28 August 2023

The rapid and significant expansion of urban areas is observed worldwide; however, considerable differences are detected within the characteristics of the process. The rural–urban fringe is changing most dynamically from the aspect of land use...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
5,648 Views
26 Pages

Predicting Near-Future Built-Settlement Expansion Using Relative Changes in Small Area Populations

  • Jeremiah J. Nieves,
  • Maksym Bondarenko,
  • Alessandro Sorichetta,
  • Jessica E. Steele,
  • David Kerr,
  • Alessandra Carioli,
  • Forrest R. Stevens,
  • Andrea E. Gaughan and
  • Andrew J. Tatem

12 May 2020

Advances in the availability of multi-temporal, remote sensing-derived global built-/human-settlements datasets can now provide globally consistent definitions of “human-settlement” at unprecedented spatial fineness. Yet, these data only...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,812 Views
35 Pages

7 September 2023

Rationally relieving the population of urban centers in large cities, such as megacities and supercities, is one of the current goals of population development in China. The fringe area of a large city is a potential area to undertake the population...

  • Article
  • Open Access
76 Citations
10,216 Views
22 Pages

The Effects of Urban Policies on the Development of Urban Areas

  • Federico Amato,
  • Biagio Antonio Maimone,
  • Federico Martellozzo,
  • Gabriele Nolè and
  • Beniamino Murgante

24 March 2016

For more than a decade, the European Union recognizes soil as a common good and considers it as a finite resource of inestimable value. The European Union defines it as the “upper layer of earth’s crust, formed by mineral particles, organic matter, w...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
7,387 Views
19 Pages

Remote Sensing-Based Analysis of Urban Landscape Change in the City of Bucharest, Romania

  • Constantin Nistor,
  • Marina Vîrghileanu,
  • Irina Cârlan,
  • Bogdan-Andrei Mihai,
  • Liviu Toma and
  • Bogdan Olariu

13 June 2021

The paper investigates the urban landscape changes for the last 50 years in Bucharest, the capital city of Romania. Bucharest shows a complex structural transformation driven by the socialist urban policy, followed by an intensive real-estate market...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,095 Views
17 Pages

30 November 2023

The rapid urbanization of Lagos City has resulted in an expansion of urban and nighttime lights, which, in turn, places a significant burden on natural resources. This burden exacerbates the adverse impacts of changes in climate parameters, underscor...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
5,668 Views
20 Pages

11 December 2019

This paper introduces a new algorithm (BUNTUS—Built-up, Nighttime Light, and Travel time for Urban Size) using remote sensing techniques to delineate urban boundaries. The paper is part of a larger study of the role of urbanisation in changing...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,848 Views
27 Pages

Mapping Urban Changes Through the Spatio-Temporal Analysis of Vegetation and Built-Up Areas in Iași, Romania

  • Cristian-Manuel Foșalău,
  • Lucian Roșu,
  • Corneliu Iațu,
  • Oliver-Valentin Dinter and
  • Petru-Mihai Cristodulo

24 December 2024

Vegetation cover in urban and peri-urban areas is threatened by urban sprawl, through habitat fragmentation, loss of green space, biodiversity reduction, and the urban heat island effect intensifying. The intrusion of cities into natural landscapes r...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,262 Views
20 Pages

Dynamics of Changes in Spatial Patterns of Built-Up Areas in Two Metropolitan Areas of Grand Lomé and Greater Accra (West Africa)

  • Adjowa Yéwa Tossoukpe,
  • Jaiye Dukiya,
  • Fousseni Folega,
  • Michael Thiel and
  • Appollonia Aimiosino Okhimamhe

Urbanization and population growth in West Africa have significantly altered land use and land cover (LULC), raising environmental concerns. This study examines urban land use patterns in the District Autonome du Grand Lomé (DAGL) and Greater...

  • Article
  • Open Access
37 Citations
6,613 Views
20 Pages

Automated Extraction of Built-Up Areas by Fusing VIIRS Nighttime Lights and Landsat-8 Data

  • Chang Liu,
  • Kang Yang,
  • Mia M. Bennett,
  • Ziyan Guo,
  • Liang Cheng and
  • Manchun Li

2 July 2019

As the world urbanizes and builds more infrastructure, the extraction of built-up areas using remote sensing is crucial for monitoring land cover changes and understanding urban environments. Previous studies have proposed a variety of methods for ma...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
8,685 Views
30 Pages

Critical Assessment of Land Use Land Cover Dynamics Using Multi-Temporal Satellite Images

  • Md. Surabuddin Mondal,
  • Nayan Sharma,
  • Martin Kappas and
  • P. K. Garg

24 February 2015

An attempt has been made to assess the dynamics of land use land cover change (LULCC) in the study area. LANDSAT-5 TM, IRS-1C LISS III, IRS-P6 LISS III images of 1987, 1997 and 2007, respectively, were digitally classified for land use land cover (LU...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,263 Views
20 Pages

26 June 2023

The fast development of urban built-up areas in China is causing many problems, such as pollution, congestion, etc. How to effectively evaluate the coordination between urban areas and environmental problems has been attracting many scholars worldwid...

  • Article
  • Open Access
40 Citations
8,942 Views
16 Pages

17 September 2019

This study focused on the prediction of land-use changes in Nakhon Ratchasima city using a CA-Markov Model with GIS. Satellite images taken by Landsat-5 (1992), Landsat-7 (2002) and THEOS (2016) were used to predict land use in 2026. In 1992, the mos...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
4,807 Views
14 Pages

8 March 2021

Land use/cover change (LUCC) has a crucial influence on ecosystem function, environmental change and decision support. Rapid and precise monitoring of land use/cover change information is essential for utilization and management of land resources. Th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
8,184 Views
20 Pages

19 April 2024

Here, we assess land use/land cover (LULC) transitions over the last 30 years in Jakarta, Indonesia. Land cover maps were prepared for 1990, 1995, 2000, 2005, 2010, 2015, and 2020 using seven categories of Landsat satellite image: bare land, built-up...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,631 Views
21 Pages

27 May 2025

Increasing anthropogenic disturbance in urban areas and the expansion of built-up zones into surrounding rural landscapes represent one of the most significant spatial and ecological challenges of recent decades. Urban expansion influences not only l...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
15,763 Views
23 Pages

16 October 2013

The increase in population and the expansion of built-up areas into natural and agricultural areas results in more than just loss of open spaces surrounding cities. Reduced accessibility to nature, visual intrusion of buildings into natural viewsheds...

  • Article
  • Open Access
291 Citations
29,024 Views
14 Pages

Enhanced Built-Up and Bareness Index (EBBI) for Mapping Built-Up and Bare Land in an Urban Area

  • Abd. Rahman As-syakur,
  • I Wayan Sandi Adnyana,
  • I Wayan Arthana and
  • I Wayan Nuarsa

2 October 2012

Remotely sensed imagery is a type of data that is compatible with the monitoring and mapping of changes in built-up and bare land within urban areas as the impacts of population growth and urbanisation increase. The application of currently available...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
3,929 Views
20 Pages

3 June 2021

Local climate zones (LCZs) emphasize the influence of representative geometric properties and surface cover characteristics on the local climate. In this paper, we propose a multi-temporal LCZ mapping method, which was used to obtain LCZ maps for 200...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,328 Views
17 Pages

11 January 2023

As the main carbon sink in the carbon cycle process, vegetation is an important support for achieving “carbon peaking” and “carbon neutrality. How does the vegetation coverage of urban built-up areas change in the process of urbaniz...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,804 Views
18 Pages

Impacts of Historical Land Use Changes on Ecosystem Services in Guangdong Province, China

  • Haizhen Chen,
  • Yi Chen,
  • Xiaosong Chen,
  • Xingzhong Zhang,
  • Haowei Wu and
  • Zhihui Li

30 May 2022

Assessing land use change and its impacts on ecosystem services is of great significance for optimizing land use management and enhancing ecosystem sustainability. This study explores land use changes and their impacts on five typical ecosystem servi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
101 Citations
7,573 Views
17 Pages

22 December 2021

The changes of land use/land cover (LULC) are important factor affecting the intensity of the urban heat island (UHI) effect. Based on Landsat image data of Wuhan, this paper uses cellular automata (CA) and artificial neural network (ANN) to predict...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,337 Views
22 Pages

16 January 2023

When a large-scale flood disaster occurs, it is important to identify the flood areas in a short time in order to effectively support the affected areas afterwards. Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) is promising for flood detection. A number of change d...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
4,329 Views
14 Pages

7 December 2021

Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) target 11.3 is to enhance inclusive and sustainable urbanisation and capacity for participatory, integrated, and sustainable human settlement planning and management in all countries by 2030. Within that goal, the i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
18,028 Views
21 Pages

7 April 2010

In light of rapid global urbanisation, monitoring and mapping of urban and population growth is of great importance. Population growth in Sana’a was investigated for this reason. The capital of the Republic of Yemen is a rapidly growing middle sized...

  • Article
  • Open Access
59 Citations
5,948 Views
21 Pages

Land Use and Land Cover Change Monitoring and Prediction of a UNESCO World Heritage Site: Kaziranga Eco-Sensitive Zone Using Cellular Automata-Markov Model

  • Nityaranjan Nath,
  • Dhrubajyoti Sahariah,
  • Gowhar Meraj,
  • Jatan Debnath,
  • Pankaj Kumar,
  • Durlov Lahon,
  • Kesar Chand,
  • Majid Farooq,
  • Pankaj Chandan and
  • Shruti Kanga
  • + 1 author

2 January 2023

The Kaziranga Eco-Sensitive Zone is located on the edge of the Eastern Himalayan biodiversity hotspot region. In 1985, the Kaziranga National Park (KNP) was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO. Nowadays, anthropogenic interference has created a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,795 Views
14 Pages

Spatio-Temporal Variation in Mountainous Landscape Changes: A Case Study of Shizhu County

  • Qin Chen,
  • Yuechen Li,
  • Chunxia Liu,
  • Yunong Yang,
  • Jiao Wu and
  • Mingyang Li

10 April 2019

The study of dynamic changes and spatial variation of landscape patterns is important to deeply understand the relationship between human activities and the natural environment. We selected a typical mountain area, Shizhu County, as the study area an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,704 Views
14 Pages

14 January 2023

The relationship between the built environment and climate change has been discussed from many perspectives. This study examines the effect of the built environment on climate change indicators in Turkish provinces over the last 18 years, contributin...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,985 Views
11 Pages

26 November 2024

Rapid urbanization causes a high concentration of human population and economic activities that lead to the changes in landscape and spatial growth of the cities. Landscape features play a key role in understanding the land use and land cover (LULC)...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
8,739 Views
19 Pages

28 September 2023

This research addresses the evolution of slums in two specific areas of Lagos City, a consequence of rapid urbanization in developing economies. The study aims to analyze the key characteristics of slums’ evolution while analyzing mathematical...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,444 Views
20 Pages

30 July 2024

Nowadays, the reorganization of rural land-use space exhibits a dynamic process of expansion and shrinkage. Taking the Wuhan Metropolitan Area as an example, this study used the InVEST model to quantitatively assess changes in rural built-up land bet...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
3,946 Views
19 Pages

3 May 2023

Quantifying the change in land use and land cover (LULC) is critical for revealing the impact of human activities on the environment of the Earth’s surface. Although some studies were conducted on the change in LULC in rapidly urbanizing areas,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
62 Citations
6,599 Views
21 Pages

Rapid Urbanization Impact on the Hydrological Processes in Zhengzhou, China

  • Jingyi Wang,
  • Caihong Hu,
  • Bingyan Ma and
  • Xiaoling Mu

30 June 2020

Changes in the hydrological process caused by urbanization lead to frequent flooding in cities. For fast-growing urban areas, the impact of urbanization on the hydrological process needs to be systematically analyzed. This study takes Zhengzhou as an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
4,580 Views
16 Pages

17 October 2017

Many studies have reported the thermal effects of urban expansion from non-built-up land; however, how changes in building height in built-up land influence the regional thermal environment is still uncertain. Thus, taking the transitional region bet...

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
9,209 Views
21 Pages

5 January 2021

Kumasi is a nodal city and functions as the administrative and economic capital of the Ashanti region in Ghana. Rapid urbanization has been experienced inducing the transformation of various Land Use Land Cover (LULC) types into urban/built-up areas...

  • Article
  • Open Access
38 Citations
5,343 Views
20 Pages

8 April 2020

Urbanization in China is progressing rapidly and continuously, especially in the newly developed metropolitan areas. The Google Earth Engine (GEE) is a powerful tool that can be used to efficiently investigate these changes using a large repository o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
6,566 Views
16 Pages

Land Use and Land Cover Changes: A Case Study in Nigeria

  • Olanrewaju H. Ologunde,
  • Mordiyah O. Kelani,
  • Moges K. Biru,
  • Abdullahi B. Olayemi and
  • Márcio R. Nunes

13 February 2025

Land Use and Land Cover (LULC) assessment is vital for achieving sustainable ecosystems. This study quantified and mapped the spatiotemporal LULC changes in Ado-Odo Ota Local Government Area of Ogun State, Nigeria, between 2015 and 2023. The LULC was...

  • Article
  • Open Access
35 Citations
8,622 Views
15 Pages

18 May 2020

This study investigated the spatiotemporal changes of land use land cover (LULC) and its impact on land surface temperature (LST) in the Galle Municipal Council area (GMCA), Sri Lanka. The same was achieved by employing the multi-temporal satellite d...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
6,379 Views
25 Pages

3 October 2021

Assessing the relentless expansion of built-up areas is one of the most important tasks for achieving sustainable planning and supporting decision-making on the regional and local level. In this context, techniques based on remote sensing can play a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
38 Citations
5,803 Views
22 Pages

3 August 2020

Urban “blue-green” space is the basic element of urban natural ecological space. The rapid urbanization process has a significant impact on the pattern of urban blue-green space and seriously threatens the urban ecological environment. It...

  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
8,017 Views
28 Pages

Assessing the Influence of Land Use/Land Cover Alteration on Climate Variability: An Analysis in the Aurangabad District of Maharashtra State, India

  • Md Masroor,
  • Ram Avtar,
  • Haroon Sajjad,
  • Pandurang Choudhari,
  • Luc Cimusa Kulimushi,
  • Khaled Mohamed Khedher,
  • Akinola Adesuji Komolafe,
  • Ali P. Yunus and
  • Netrananda Sahu

7 January 2022

Examining the influence of land use/land cover transformation on meteorological variables has become imperative for maintaining long-term climate sustainability. Rapid growth and haphazard expansion have caused the conversion of prime agricultural la...

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