Urbanization is developing unprecedentedly on a global scale. One of the chief repercussions of urbanization, caused by man-made alterations in land-use/land-cover (LULC), is the formation of urban heat islands. Albeit, differences among landscape structures and its accompanied effects on the environment are mostly neglected. Accordingly, the main objective of this study is to survey the variou...

Rivers are essential to aquatic ecosystem and societal sustainability, but are increasingly impacted by water withdrawals, land-use change, and climate change. The relative and cumulative effects of these stressors on continental river flows are relatively unknown. In this study, we used an integrated water balance and flow routing model to evaluate the impacts of impervious cover and water wit...

Research has shown that impervious surfaces, a consequence of development, have a direct impact upon stream quality. Local planners and land-use officials need simple tools to help them determine the amount of impervious surface within watersheds and to assess impacts from future development. This paper describes an ArcView GISbased model being developed by the Northeast Regional Earth Science ...

The monitoring of impervious surfaces in urban areas using remote sensing with fine spatial and temporal resolutions is crucial for development environmental changes areas. Spatiotemporal super-resolution mapping (STSRM) fuses fine-spatial-coarse-temporal data coarse-spatial-fine-temporal data, allowing surface at both fine-spatial fine-temporal resolutions. STSRM involves two main steps: unmix...

Impervious surfaces have been widely considered as the key indicator for evaluating urbanization and environmental quality. As one of most applied methods, spectral mixture analysis (SMA) has commonly used mapping urban impervious surface fractions. When implementing SMA, original multispectral remote-sensing reflectance images are served foundation to successful SMA. However, limited variances...

The amount and intensity of runoff on catchment scale are strongly determinedby the presence of impervious land-cover types, which are the predominant cover types inurbanized areas. This paper examines the impact of different methods for estimatingimpervious surface cover on the prediction of peak discharges, as determined by a fullydistributed rainfall-runoff model (WetSpa), for the upper part...

—Western Burrowing Owls (Athene cunicularia hypugaea) often live in close proximity to humans, yet their behavioral responses to anthropogenic land use are largely unknown. We compared the diurnal foraging and activity budgets of adult male Burrowing Owls during the breeding seasons of 2004 and 2005 at three urban and three rural sites in northwestern Texas. The owls (N 5 17 urban, 10 rural) sp...

* Corresponding author. Abstract – Impervious surfaces are mapped by applying regression tree classification on Landsat ETM+ data of Østfold County located in Southern Norway. Reference data consist of high precision polygon vector data of roads, parking lots and buildings for a selected region (Fredrikstad Municipality) within the study area. The output from the classification using the regres...