Mapping an Urban Boundary Based on Multi-Temporal Sentinel-2 and POI Data: A Case Study of Zhengzhou City

Accurately identifying and delineating urban boundaries are the premise for and foundation of the control of disorderly urban sprawl, which is helpful for us to accurately grasp the scale and form of cities, optimize the internal spatial structure and pattern of cities, and guide the expansion of ur...

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Main Authors: Zhe Wang, Haiying Wang, Fen Qin, Zhigang Han, Changhong Miao
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Published: MDPI AG 2020-12-01
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/12/24/4103
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author Zhe Wang
Haiying Wang
Fen Qin
Zhigang Han
Changhong Miao
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Haiying Wang
Fen Qin
Zhigang Han
Changhong Miao
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description Accurately identifying and delineating urban boundaries are the premise for and foundation of the control of disorderly urban sprawl, which is helpful for us to accurately grasp the scale and form of cities, optimize the internal spatial structure and pattern of cities, and guide the expansion of urban spaces in the future. At present, the concept and delineation of urban boundaries do not follow a unified method or standard. However, many scholars have made use of multi-source remote sensing images of various scales and social auxiliary data such as point of interest (POI) data to achieve large-scale, high-resolution, and high-precision land cover mapping and impermeable water surface mapping. The accuracy of small- and medium-scale urban boundary mapping has not been improved to an obvious extent. This study uses multi-temporal Sentinel-2 high-resolution images and POI data that can reflect detailed features of human activities to extract multi-dimensional features and use random forests and mathematical morphology to map the urban boundaries of the city of Zhengzhou. The research results show that: (1) the urban construction land extraction model established with multi-dimensional features has a great improvement in accuracy; (2) when the training sample accounts for 65% of the sample data set, the urban construction land extraction model has the highest accuracy, reaching 96.25%, and the Kappa coefficient is 0.93; (3) the optimized boundary of structural elements with a size of 13 × 13 is selected, which is in good agreement in terms of scope and location with the boundary of FROM-GLC10 (Zhengzhou) and visual interpretations. The results from the urban boundary delineation in this paper can be used as an important database for detailed basic land use mapping within cities. Moreover, the method in this paper has some reference value for other cities in terms of delineating urban boundaries.
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spelling doaj.art-3fb04b24822c4add9fd4b68aef48f9142023-11-21T00:59:00ZengMDPI AGRemote Sensing2072-42922020-12-011224410310.3390/rs12244103Mapping an Urban Boundary Based on Multi-Temporal Sentinel-2 and POI Data: A Case Study of Zhengzhou CityZhe Wang0Haiying Wang1Fen Qin2Zhigang Han3Changhong Miao4College of Environment and Planning, Henan University, Kaifeng 475004, ChinaCollege of Environment and Planning, Henan University, Kaifeng 475004, ChinaCollege of Environment and Planning, Henan University, Kaifeng 475004, ChinaCollege of Environment and Planning, Henan University, Kaifeng 475004, ChinaKey Research Institute of Yellow River Civilization and Sustainable Development, Henan University, Kaifeng 475004, ChinaAccurately identifying and delineating urban boundaries are the premise for and foundation of the control of disorderly urban sprawl, which is helpful for us to accurately grasp the scale and form of cities, optimize the internal spatial structure and pattern of cities, and guide the expansion of urban spaces in the future. At present, the concept and delineation of urban boundaries do not follow a unified method or standard. However, many scholars have made use of multi-source remote sensing images of various scales and social auxiliary data such as point of interest (POI) data to achieve large-scale, high-resolution, and high-precision land cover mapping and impermeable water surface mapping. The accuracy of small- and medium-scale urban boundary mapping has not been improved to an obvious extent. This study uses multi-temporal Sentinel-2 high-resolution images and POI data that can reflect detailed features of human activities to extract multi-dimensional features and use random forests and mathematical morphology to map the urban boundaries of the city of Zhengzhou. The research results show that: (1) the urban construction land extraction model established with multi-dimensional features has a great improvement in accuracy; (2) when the training sample accounts for 65% of the sample data set, the urban construction land extraction model has the highest accuracy, reaching 96.25%, and the Kappa coefficient is 0.93; (3) the optimized boundary of structural elements with a size of 13 × 13 is selected, which is in good agreement in terms of scope and location with the boundary of FROM-GLC10 (Zhengzhou) and visual interpretations. The results from the urban boundary delineation in this paper can be used as an important database for detailed basic land use mapping within cities. Moreover, the method in this paper has some reference value for other cities in terms of delineating urban boundaries.https://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/12/24/4103urban boundariesmulti-temporal datarandom forestmathematical morphologyZhengzhou City
spellingShingle Zhe Wang
Haiying Wang
Fen Qin
Zhigang Han
Changhong Miao
Mapping an Urban Boundary Based on Multi-Temporal Sentinel-2 and POI Data: A Case Study of Zhengzhou City
Remote Sensing
urban boundaries
multi-temporal data
random forest
mathematical morphology
Zhengzhou City
title Mapping an Urban Boundary Based on Multi-Temporal Sentinel-2 and POI Data: A Case Study of Zhengzhou City
title_full Mapping an Urban Boundary Based on Multi-Temporal Sentinel-2 and POI Data: A Case Study of Zhengzhou City
title_fullStr Mapping an Urban Boundary Based on Multi-Temporal Sentinel-2 and POI Data: A Case Study of Zhengzhou City
title_full_unstemmed Mapping an Urban Boundary Based on Multi-Temporal Sentinel-2 and POI Data: A Case Study of Zhengzhou City
title_short Mapping an Urban Boundary Based on Multi-Temporal Sentinel-2 and POI Data: A Case Study of Zhengzhou City
title_sort mapping an urban boundary based on multi temporal sentinel 2 and poi data a case study of zhengzhou city
topic urban boundaries
multi-temporal data
random forest
mathematical morphology
Zhengzhou City
url https://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/12/24/4103
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