Green spaces as an indicator of urban health: Evaluating its changes in 28 mega-cities

Remote Sensing

Volumn 9, Issue 12, 2017, Pages

  Huang, Conghong ^a   Yang, Jun ^a,b   Lu, Hui ^a,b   Huang, Huabing ^c   Yu, Le ^a,b  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b JOINT CENTER FOR GLOBAL CHANGE STUDIES   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Google earth engine; Green space; Landsat; Megacity; Public health

Indexed keywords

DECISION TREES; EARTH (PLANET); ENGINES; POPULATION STATISTICS; PUBLIC HEALTH; TRANSPORTATION;

GOOGLE EARTHS; GREEN SPACES; LAND COVER MAPS; LANDSAT; MEAN AVAILABILITY; MEGACITIES; RANDOM FOREST CLASSIFIER; URBAN GREEN SPACES;

HEALTH;

EID: 85038216171     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs9121266     Document Type: Article

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