In this paper, the progress of studies on Chinese urban expansion based on remote sensing technology are summarized and analyzed from the aspects of urban area definition, remotely sensed imagery applied in urban expansion, monitoring methods of urban expansion, and urban expansion applications. ...
aSee legend to Figure 1 for definition of subregions A–K. bSpecies number includes common species among all flora regions. Excluding this overlap, the number of species is 13,850. We used the number of climate type, landform type, and formation under vegetation type to express climate, landf...
What about the cities that are already occupied? We don’t need a statistical model to tell us New York, Los Angeles and Chicago can support a major league team. Each already fits two comfortably. But might one of these three mega-cities be able to accommodate a third? Unfortunately, my...
1. Introduction Urban population growth and accompanying urban expansion are global phenomena that significantly impact the environment and human life, and their scale and intensity are worsening over time [1]. Although there is no widely accepted rigorous definition for the term "urban sprawl" [2,...
It is important to note that throughout this paper, the term "scenarios" is used to refer to different future contexts, rather than according to the definition of scenario in the strict sense of the term. Moreover, all of the prototype submodels represent tools in the form of open ...