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Satellite mapping of every building’s function in urban China reveals deep built environment disparities
We introduce a national building functional map that delineates 110 million buildings across 109 major Chinese cities using 1-m multi-modal satellite data, and use nine indicators to quantify built-environment inequality across city tiers, regions, and within-city zones.
Zhuohong Li, Linxin Li, Ting Hu, Mofan Cheng, Wei He, Tong Qiu, Liangpei Zhang, Hongyan Zhang
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Satellite mapping of every building’s function in urban China reveals deep built environment disparities
Urban Treetop Detection and Tree-Height Estimation from Unmanned-Aerial-Vehicle Images
Individual tree detection for urban forests in subtropical environments remains a great challenge due to the various types of forest …
Hui Wu, Minghao Zhuang, Yuanchi Chen, Chen Meng, Caiyan Wu, Linke Ouyang, Yuhan Liu, Yi Shu, Yuzhong Tao, Tong Qiu, Junxiang Li
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Spatiotemporal evolution of urbanization and its implications to urban planning of the megacity, Shanghai, China
The spatial and temporal patterns of urbanization in Shanghai and how it can guide urban planning
Caiyan Wu, Cheng Li, Linke Ouyang, Huirong Xiao, Jiong Wu, Minghao Zhuang, Xing Bi, Junxiang Li, Chunfang Wang, Conghe Song, Tong Qiu, Dagmar Haase, Amy Hahs, Maros Finka
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