Affiliation:
1. Department of Civil Engineering, University of Calabria, 87036 Rende, CS, Italy
Abstract
Although many authors have observed a degradation in greening cover alongside an increase in the built-up areas, resulting in a deterioration of the essential environmental services for the well-being of ecosystems and society, few studies have measured how greening developed in its full spatiotemporal configuration with urban development using innovative remote sensing (RS) technologies. Focusing on this issue, the authors propose an innovative methodology for the analysis of the urban and greening changes over time by integrating deep learning (DL) technologies to classify and segment the built-up area and the vegetation cover from satellite and aerial images and geographic information system (GIS) techniques. The core of the methodology is a trained and validated U-Net model, which was tested on an urban area in the municipality of Matera (Italy), analyzing the urban and greening changes from 2000 to 2020. The results demonstrate a very good level of accuracy of the U-Net model, a remarkable increment in the built-up area density (8.28%) and a decline in the vegetation cover density (5.13%). The obtained results demonstrate how the proposed method can be used to rapidly and accurately identify useful information about urban and greening spatiotemporal development using innovative RS technologies supporting sustainable development processes.
Subject
Electrical and Electronic Engineering,Biochemistry,Instrumentation,Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics,Analytical Chemistry
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