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Riguga Su, Chaobin Yang, Zhibo Xu, Tingwen Luo, Lilong Yang, Lifeng Liu and Chao Wang
Urban landscape has important effects on urban climate, and the local climate zone (LCZ) framework has been widely applied in related studies. However, few studies have compared the relative contributions of LCZ on the urban thermal environment across di...
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Yoganand Korgaonkar, David Phillip Guertin, Thomas Meixner and David C Goodrich
Green Infrastructure (GI) practices are being implemented in numerous cities to tackle stormwater management issues and achieve co-benefits such as mitigating heat island effects and air pollution, as well as water augmentation, health, and economic bene...
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Jing Yu, Shu Peng, Weiwei Zhang and Shun Kang
Recognizing land cover heterogeneity is essential for the assessment of spatial patterns to guide conservation planning. One of the top research priorities is the quantification of land cover heterogeneity using effective landscape metrics. However, due ...
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Payam Tabrizian, Anna Petrasova, Perver K. Baran, Jelena Vukomanovic, Helena Mitasova and Ross K. Meentemeyer
Visual characteristics of urban environments influence human perception and behavior, including choices for living, recreation and modes of transportation. Although geospatial visualizations hold great potential to better inform urban planning and design...
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Tarik Bouramtane, Abdessamad Tiouiouine, Ilias Kacimi, Vincent Valles, Amine Talih, Nadia Kassou, Jamila Ouardi, Amal Saidi, Moad Morarech, Suzanne Yameogo, Hamza El Kbiri, Hajar Rhazal, Hala Achach and Laurent Barbiero
Drainage network patterns influence the hydrological response of the watersheds and must be taken into account in the management of the water resource. In this context, it is important to identify the factors that control the configuration of drainage ne...
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Leena Jaydeep Shevade, L. James Lo and Franco A. Montalto
Green infrastructure (GI) is a decentralized stormwater management strategy that can simultaneously enhance the resilience of the urban landscape to weather-related stressors. The effectiveness of individual GI facilities is determined by the physical ch...
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Giuseppe Nebbione and Maria Carla Calzarossa
IoT technologies are becoming pervasive in public and private sectors and represent presently an integral part of our daily life. The advantages offered by these technologies are frequently coupled with serious security issues that are often not properly...
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Li-Chi Chiang, Yi-Ting Chuang and Chin-Chuan Han
The Chenyulan watershed, located in the central mountain area of Taiwan, has been suffering from earthquakes, typhoons, and heavy rainfalls in recent decades. These sequential natural disturbances have a cumulative impact on the watershed, leading to mor...
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Paolo Zatelli, Stefano Gobbi, Clara Tattoni, Maria Giulia Cantiani, Nicola La Porta, Duccio Rocchini, Nicola Zorzi and Marco Ciolli
Landscape metrics constitute one of the main tools for the study of the changes of the landscape and of the ecological structure of a region. The most popular software for landscape metrics evaluation is FRAGSTATS, which is free to use but does not have ...
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The research presented in the work is linked to important production of data over 10 years of activity that allowed us to trace the configuration of Italian urban settlements in the 1950s. Starting from this information, the paper puts forward a uchronia...
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