An effective Building Neighborhood Green Index model for measuring urban green space

International Journal of Digital Earth

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 387-409

  Liu, Yuqin ^a,b   Meng, Qingyan ^a   Zhang, Jiahui ^a,b   Zhang, Linlin ^a,b   Jancso, Tamas ^c   Vatseva, Rumiana ^d  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c ÓBUDA UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GEOPHYSICS   (Bulgaria)

Author keywords

BNGI; building oriented method; Green Index; neighborhood; urban green space

Indexed keywords

BUILDINGS; REMOTE SENSING;

BNGI; GREEN INDICES; HIGH RESOLUTION REMOTE SENSING; NEIGHBORHOOD; PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT; SPATIAL CONFIGURATION; URBAN GREEN SPACES; VALIDATION PROCESS;

URBAN PLANNING;

GREENSPACE; MODELING; NEIGHBORHOOD; REMOTE SENSING; URBAN AREA; URBAN ECOSYSTEM; URBAN PLANNING;

EID: 84937789459     PISSN: 17538947     EISSN: 17538955     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17538947.2015.1037870     Document Type: Article

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