impervious surface

Identifying where and when urban renewal occurs: a continuous change detection-based framework using two decades' worth of Landsat data

Urban Renewal & Remote Sensing 🏙️ What if satellites could tell us when a city breathes, rebuilds, and transforms? A new study used 20 years of Landsat satellite data to map urban renewal in Beijing—capturing not just where old buildings were torn down and rebuilt, but when and how fast the changes happened.

Fine-resolution mapping and assessment of artificial surfaces in the northern hemisphere permafrost environments

This study aims to map and assess artificial surfaces in the northern hemisphere. Author: Qi Zhang Updated: January 2024

Arctic’s man-made impervious surfaces expanded by over two-thirds in the 21st century

An efficient approach to capture continuous impervious surface dynamics using spatial-temporal rules and dense Landsat time series stacks