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Jiantao Liu, Quanlong Feng, Ying Wang, Bayartungalag Batsaikhan, Jianhua Gong, Yi Li, Chunting Liu and Yin Ma
With the rapid process of both urban sprawl and urban renewal, large numbers of old buildings have been demolished in China, leading to wide spread construction sites, which could cause severe dust contamination. To alleviate the accompanied dust polluti...
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Wei-Lun Tsai, Melissa R. McHale, Viniece Jennings, Oriol Marquet, J. Aaron Hipp, Yu-Fai Leung and Myron F. Floyd
Urbanization increases risk for depression and other mental disorders. A growing body of research indicates the natural environment confers numerous psychological benefits including alleviation of mental distress. This study examined land cover types and...
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Kalomoira Zisopoulou and Dionysia Panagoulia
An analytical review of physical blue and green water scarcity in terms of agricultural use, and its amenability to economic interpretation, is presented, employing more than 600 references. The main definitions and classifications involved and informati...
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Lorenzo De Simone, Dorian Navarro, Pietro Gennari, Anssi Pekkarinen and Javier de Lamo
SDG indicators are instrumental for the monitoring of countries? progress towards sustainability goals as set out by the UN Agenda 2030. Earth observation data can facilitate such monitoring and reporting processes, thanks to their intrinsic characterist...
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Indung Sitti Fatimah,Naik Sinukaban,Aris Munandar,Kholil Kholil
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Greenery open space is a fundamental part of urban development and management in sustaining the quality of urban environment and the welfare of urban dwellers. A high rate of population growth and limited land owned causing the growth of physical develop...
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Seyed Ali Alavi, Saeed Esfandi, Amir Reza Khavarian-Garmsir, Safiyeh Tayebi, Aliakbar Shamsipour and Ayyoob Sharifi
This research aims to analyze the relationship between environmental justice and urban green space connectivity in Tehran, Iran. The evaluation of green space connectivity in this study is conducted through two distinct cost layers: one aimed at enhancin...
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Bijesh Mishra, Jeremy Sandifer, Buddhi Raj Gyawali
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The term ?urban heat island? (UHI) describes increased surface and atmospheric temperatures in an urban core relative to surrounding non-urbanized areas. Although the phenomenon has been studied to a great extent throughout the world, it is less understo...
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Yansu Qi, Xuefei Li, Yingjie Liu, Xiujuan He, Weijun Gao and Sheng Miao
Morphological indicators, which are important for urban planning, can be adjusted to effectively mitigate the heat island effect and promote a more comfortable urban environment. Most studies obtain the relationship between morphological indicators and l...
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Anastasiia Kolevatova, Michael A. Riegler, Francesco Cherubini, Xiangping Hu and Hugo L. Hammer
A general issue in climate science is the handling of big data and running complex and computationally heavy simulations. In this paper, we explore the potential of using machine learning (ML) to spare computational time and optimize data usage. The pape...
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Elis Alves, Max Anjos and Emerson Galvani
Currently, cities have aroused the interest of researchers due the local climate change caused by the surface urban heat island (SUHI) effect. The impact of anthropogenic land use and cover changes has led to more frequent intense SUHI, with direct conse...
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Timothy Nyerges, John A. Gallo, Keith M. Reynolds, Steven D. Prager, Philip J. Murphy and Wenwen Li
Improving geo-information decision evaluation is an important part of geospatial decision support research, particularly when considering vulnerability, risk, resilience, and sustainability (V-R-R-S) of urban land?water systems (ULWSs). Previous research...
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Xiaomei Kou, Dianchao Han, Yongxiang Cao, Haixing Shang, Houfeng Li, Xin Zhang and Min Yang
Mining of mineral resources exposes various minerals to oxidizing environments, especially sulfide minerals, which are decomposed by water after oxidation and make the water in the mine area acidic. Acid mine drainage (AMD) from mining can pollute surrou...
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Mohamed. M. Yagoub, Yacob T. Tesfaldet, Marwan G. Elmubarak and Naeema Al Hosani
Urban quality of life (UQoL) study is very important for many applications such as services distribution, urban planning, and socioeconomic analysis. The objective of this study is to create an urban quality of life index map for Al Ain city in the Unite...
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Gereon Seeberg, Antonia Hostlowsky, Julia Huber, Julia Kamm, Lucia Lincke and Clemens Schwingshackl
The urban heat island (UHI) effect is a serious health risk for people living in cities and thus calls for effective mitigation strategies in urban areas. Satellite data enable monitoring of the surface urban heat island (SUHI) over large areas at high s...
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Walid Al-Shaar, Olivier Bonin, Bernard de Gouvello, Patrice Chatellier and Martin Hendel
Due to global urbanization, urban areas are encountering many environmental, social, and economic challenges. Different solutions have been proposed and implemented, such as nature-based solutions and green and blue infrastructure. Taking into considerat...
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Coraline Wyard, Benjamin Beaumont, Taïs Grippa and Eric Hallot
Earth observation technologies offer non-intrusive solutions for monitoring complex and risky sites, such as landfills. In particular, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) offer the ability to acquire data at very high spatial resolution, with full control of...
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Ting Yuan, Jian Zhang, Yong Xiang and Liyu Lu
With rapid urbanisation in China, sustainable urban development faces a major obstacle due to insufficient consideration of land-use efficiency. Currently, despite progress in analysing land-use efficiency, not every land manager has enough knowledge of ...
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Lili Lin, Zhenbang Hao, Christopher J. Post, Elena A. Mikhailova, Kunyong Yu, Liuqing Yang and Jian Liu
Island ecosystems are particularly susceptible to climate change and human activities. The change of land use and land cover (LULC) has considerable impacts on island ecosystems, and there is a critical need for a free and open-source tool for detecting ...
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Zemin Han, Yuanyong Dian, Hao Xia, Jingjing Zhou, Yongfeng Jian, Chonghuai Yao, Xiong Wang and Yuan Li
Land cover is an important variable of the terrestrial ecosystem that provides information for natural resources management, urban sprawl detection, and environment research. To classify land cover with high-spatial-resolution multispectral remote sensin...
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Md. Omar Sarif, Bhagawat Rimal and Nigel E. Stork
More than half of the world?s populations now live in rapidly expanding urban and its surrounding areas. The consequences for Land Use/Land Cover (LULC) dynamics and Surface Urban Heat Island (SUHI) phenomena are poorly understood for many new cities. We...
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