Yuji Murayama

TL;DR: A significant strong correlation between mean LST and the density of impervious surface and green space along the urban-rural gradients of the three cities is found, highlighting the important role of green spaces in mitigating UHI effects, an important urban ecosystem service.

TL;DR: Sentinel-2 has a positive impact on land cover/use monitoring, specifically in monitoring of crop, forests, urban areas, and water resources and the literature shows that the use of Sentinel-2 data produces high accuracies with machine-learning classifiers such as support vector machine (SVM) and Random forest (RF).

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explored the driving factors of urban growth in Kathmandu valley using analytic hierarchy process and found that the dynamic pattern of urban growing in the valley has been greatly influenced by seven driving factors: physical conditions, public service accessibility, economic opportunities, land market, population growth, political situation, and plans and policies.

TL;DR: In this paper, an integrated technique of analytical hierarchical process (AHP) and geographic information system (GIS) is presented to evaluate the land for peri-urban agriculture.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyzed the dynamics of the socio-ecological system of Baguio City, the summer capital of the Philippines, in order to derive meaningful information for use in planning its sustainable development.