This study compared the diurnal and seasonal cycles of atmospheric and surface urban heat islands (UHIs) based on hourly air temperatures (Ta) collected at 65 out of 262 stations in Beijing and land surface temperature (Ts) derived from Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer in the years 2013–2014. We found that the nighttime atmospheric and surface UHIs referenced to rural cropland stat...

Nonpoint source pollution has been cited as the nation’s number one water quality problem and urban runoff is the pollutant of greatest concern. It has been noted that the amount of urban runoff and its impacts on stream conditions and water quality are correlated to anthropogenic watershed imperviousness. While much research has focused on quantifying this relationship, little work has been do...

Mapping and monitoring impervious surface dynamic change in a complex urban-rural frontier with medium or coarse spatial resolution images is a challenge due to the mixed pixel problem and the spectral confusion between impervious surfaces and other non-vegetation land covers. This research selected Lucas do Rio Verde County in Mato Grosso State, Brazil as a case study to improve impervious sur...

Impervious surfaces have been widely recognized as an indicator for urbanization and environment monitoring. Plenty of methods have been proposed to extract impervious surfaces using remote sensing images. However, accurately extracting impervious surface is still a challenging task due to the confusion between impervious surface and bare soil. Thus, this paper presents a hybrid approach consis...

Although China has promoted the construction of Chinese Sustainable Ground Transportation (CSGT) to guide sustainable development, it may create substantial challenges, such as rapid urban growth and land limitations. This research assessed the effects of the Hangzhou Bay Bridge on impervious surface growth in Cixi County, Ningbo, Zhejiang Province, China. Changes in impervious surfaces were ma...

Impervious surface is an important indicator for urban development monitoring. Accurate urban impervious surfaces mapping with VNREDSat-1 remains challenging due to their spectral diversity not captured by individual PAN image. In this artical, five multi-resolution image fusion techniques were compared for classification task of urban impervious surface. The result shows that for VNREDSat-1 da...

This research selects two study areas with different urban developments, sizes, and spatial patterns to explore the suitable methods for mapping impervious surface distribution using Quickbird imagery. The selected methods include per-pixel based supervised classification, segmentation-based classification, and a hybrid method. A comparative analysis of the results indicates that per-pixel base...

Urbanization is widely presumed to degrade ecosystem services, but empirical evidence is now challenging these assumptions. We report the first city-wide organic carbon (OC) budget for vegetation and soils, including under impervious surfaces. Urban soil OC storage was significantly greater than in regional agricultural land at equivalent soil depths, however there was no significant difference...

a r t i c l e i n f o The studies of impervious surfaces are important because they are related to many environmental problems, such as water quality, stream health, and the urban heat island effect. Previous studies have discussed that the self-organizing map (SOM) can provide a promising alternative to the multi-layer perceptron (MLP) neural networks for image classification at both per-pixel...