Assessing street-level urban greenery using Google Street View and a modified green view index

Urban Forestry and Urban Greening

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 675-685

  Li, Xiaojiang ^a   Zhang, Chuanrong ^a   Li, Weidong ^a   Ricard, Robert ^b   Meng, Qingyan ^c   Zhang, Weixing ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Google Street View (GSV); Green view index (GVI); Landscape assessment; Street greenery; Visual quality

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT METHOD; GREENSPACE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INDEX METHOD; LANDSCAPE PLANNING; URBAN AREA; VISUAL ANALYSIS;

MANHATTAN ISLAND; NEW YORK [NEW YORK (STT)]; NEW YORK [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84942602512     PISSN: 16188667     EISSN: 16108167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ufug.2015.06.006     Document Type: Article

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