The two main objectives of this study are to evaluate the potential use and synergetic effects of ESA Sentinel-1A C-band SAR and Sentinel-2A MSI data for classification and mapping of ecologically important urban and peri-urban space and to introduce spatial characteristics into ecosystem service analyses based on remotely sensed data.
Four LEMs are used to measure the above mentioned spatial characteristics of urban green spaces.
The importance of urban growth processes and their spatial characteristics has led to a growing interest in monitoring these phenomena.
Given the capacity of spatial metrics to characterize landscape structure, these metrics can be a valuable instrument to identify growth patterns in MAs and to evaluate possible urban growth options, based on spatial characteristics.
While subject to certain shortcomings in data quality and quantitative estimations of the magnitude of the spatial effects cannot be made, results show that most spatial characteristics of urban green spaces do influence their ecosystem service value as embedded in land value, except for the shape configuration characteristic for which the study yields no result.
Taking Beijing as the case, we use the price and other information in the city's developable land transaction records from 2000 to 2004 to construct the HPM, and use Landscape Ecological Metrics (LEM) as proxies of the spatial characteristics of urban green spaces.
Most of the landscape metrics used in urban expansion studies are capable of reflecting the spatial characteristics for individual time points, but are not efficient to capture the integrated information from time series data.
Since the spatial characteristics of a city influence its climate, urban design can be deployed to mitigate the combined effects of climate change and UHI's.
In parallel, across the landscape, urban, architectural and interior design disciplines, there has been a growing acceptance that a balance of spatial characteristics—including prospect, refuge, mystery and complexity is desirable in a natural, urban or interior environment.
To study urban agriculture in Bobo-Dioulasso, a West African city, we propose to develop a geography of arrangements to understand the social and spatial characteristics of SSAs and the way they influence urban agriculture development.
