Guangzhou city in South China has experienced an accelerated urban development since the 1980s. This paper examines the impact of the urban development on urban heat islands through a historical analysis of urban-rural air temperature differences. Remote sensing techniques were applied to derive information on land use/cover and land surface temperatures and to assess the thermal response patte...

The past few years have witnessed a proliferation of studies using spatial metrics to examine spatial structure of land cover change. Urban analysts are no exception, applying landscape metrics to study and model patterns of urban growth. While the majority of this research examines emerging urban structures by measuring changes in their aggregate forms, these spatial patterns are often dominat...

With climate change causing increased extreme weather events, megacities worldwide are experiencing unprecedentedly devastating floods and recurring flood damage. Investigating global megacities’ disposition to flooding will aid in developing sustainable flood-risk-management frameworks. Many studies have been conducted on the association between land-cover types consequences, but few investiga...

By 2050, half of the net increase in world’s population is expected to reside sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), driving high urbanization rates and drastic land cover changes. However, data-scarce environment SSA limits our understanding urban dynamics region. In this context, Earth Observation (EO) an opportunity gather accurate up-to-date spatial information on extents. During last decade, adoption o...

With the rapid and unregulated nature of urban expansion occurring in Chattogram, Bangladesh, adoption growth restriction mechanisms such as boundary (UGB) can provide a robust framework necessary to direct development built-up areas way that curtails environmentally sensitive city. Using support vector machine (SVM)-based simulation model, this paper examines future contiguous city aid delinea...

Detailed analysis of continuous time-series data from regions undergoing rapid urbanization can accurately reveal spatial variations on short time scales. This study used the city of Changchun in Jilin Province, China, as a case study to analyze total and annual changes in area—especially decreases in rural settlement area—as well as regional differences in these changes and driving forces of r...