Urbanization
monitoring and impact assessment
Abstract
Urbanization is the inevitable phenomenon of social and economic development. The rapid growth of global urbanization not only leads to complex land cover changes but also affects the vegetation coverage, the surface albedo, the surface roughness of the city, and the surrounding area and then affects the circulation of the urban hydrological and ecological systems and changes the urban environment and the near ground climate. Remote sensing provides broad, precise, impartial, and easily available information for quantifying the scope of the city, monitoring the process of urban expansion, and analyzing the impact of urbanization. This chapter aims to describe how to use ...
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