Effects of spatial resolution of remotely sensed data on estimating urban
impervious surfaces |
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Authors: | Weifeng Li Zhiyun Ouyang Weiqi Zhou and Qiuwen Chen |
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Institution: | 1. State Key laboratory of Urban and Region Ecology, Research Centre for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100085, Chinna. 2. Department of Plant Sciences, University of California, Davis, Mail Stop 1, 1210 PES, One Shields Ave., Davis, CA 95616, USA |
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Abstract: | Impervious surfaces are the result of urbanization that can be explicitly quantified, managed and controlled at each stage of land
development. It is a very useful environmental indicator that can be used to measure the impacts of urbanization on surface runoff,
water quality, air quality, biodiversity and microclimate. Therefore, accurate estimation of impervious surfaces is critical for urban
environmental monitoring, land management, decision-making and urban planning. Many approaches have been developed to estimate
surface imperviousness, using remotely sensed data with various spatial resolutions. However, few studies, have investigated the
effects of spatial resolution on estimating surface imperviousness. We compare medium-resolution Landsat data with high-resolution
SPOT images to quantify the imperviousness in Beijing, China. The results indicated that the overall 91% accuracy of estimates of
imperviousness based on TM data was considerably higher than the 81% accuracy of the SPOT data. The higher resolution SPOT data
did not always predict the imperviousness of the land better than the TM data. At the whole city level, the TM data better predicts
the percentage cover of impervious surfaces. At the sub-city level, however, the ring belts from the central core to the urban-rural
peripheral, the SPOT data may better predict the imperviousness. These results highlighted the need to combine multiple resolution
data to quantify the percentage of imperviousness, as higher resolution data do not necessarily lead to more accurate estimates. The
methodology and results in this study can be utilized to identify the most suitable remote sensing data to quickly and efficiently extract
the pattern of the impervious land, which could provide the base for further study on many related urban environmental problems. |
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Keywords: | remote sensing impervious surface landscape pattern spatial resolution object-based image analysis urban landscape |
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