The residential urbanicity was classified into three categories: urban classification for metropolitan cities; suburban classification for all other cities and counties; and rural classification for all townships and rural areas.
The approach integrating vegetation phenology with high-resolution remote sensed images provides an efficient tool to incorporate multi-temporal data into fine-scale urban classification.
The ten counties that were a part of the accountability regions and used to define the "urban" classification are: Buncombe, Cumberland, Davidson, Durham, Forsyth, Gaston, Guilford, Mecklenburg, Onslow, and Wake counties.
The development of a new urban classification method, use of hotspot analysis, and the investigations of the UHI for an African city fill important research gaps for studies of urban thermal variation.
In recent years, it has been widely agreed that spatial features derived from textural, structural, and object-based methods are important information sources to complement spectral properties for accurate urban classification of high-resolution imagery.
We modified and used a rural and urban classification based on ZIP codes developed by the Wisconsin Area Health Education Center AHECC).
The CMU health worker study used an urban classification derived from the Thai urban hierarchy based on population density and the size of municipalities [ 28].
26 Area deprivation, as measured by the 2010 Index of Multiple Deprivation, 27 and urban classification 28 were available at the 2001 LSOA level.
Urbanicity at child's birth address (urban, rural) was defined (urban classification: municipalities with > 40 inhabitants per hectare in the Swedish cohort; municipalities with > 2,000 inhabitants in the Dutch, Italian, and Spanish cohorts).
For TCS, self reported urban classification of residence has been shown to be associated with many aspects of urban living such as higher income, possession of cars and modern household appliances [ 32].
Geographic location reflected the urban classification used in the NPHS, in which rural was defined by Enumeration Area classifications, and Census Metropolitan Area (CMA) designation was used to identify residents in Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver.
