The urban greenness score: A satellite-based metric for multi-decadal characterization of urban land dynamics

Canada’s urban areas have experienced extensive growth over the past quarter century; however, there has been no consistent, spatially explicit approach for quantifying the loss and gain of greenness in cities nationally. Herein, we developed a novel urban greenness score metric using greenness frac...

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Main Authors: Agatha Czekajlo, Nicholas C. Coops, Michael A. Wulder, Txomin Hermosilla, Yuhao Lu, Joanne C. White, Matilda van den Bosch
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2020-12-01
Series:International Journal of Applied Earth Observations and Geoinformation
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0303243420302555