Combining expert and crowd-sourced training data to map urban form and functions for the continental US.

ABSTRACT: Although continental urban areas are relatively small, they are major drivers of environmental change at local, regional and global scales. Moreover, they are especially vulnerable to these changes owing to the concentration of population and their exposure to a range of hydro-meteorological hazards, emphasizing the need for spatially detailed information on urbanized landscapes. These data need to be consistent in content and scale and provide a holistic description of urban layouts to address different user needs. Here, we map the continental United States into Local Climate Zone (LCZ) types at a 100 m spatial resolution using expert and crowd-sourced information. There are 10 urban LCZ types, each associated with a set of relevant variables such that the map represents a valuable databa

SUBMITTER: Demuzere M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7421904 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature