Mapping private gardens in urban areas using object-oriented techniques and very high-resolution satellite imagery

摘要: Gardens remain the least studied and least understood habitat in urban areas. With the recent exception of the URGENT funded urban domestic gardens project in the UK, there is a notable lack of research on the ecological character and contribution of gardens to the wider urban biodiversity. This is despite the fact that gardens usually comprise the largest vegetated component of the urban greenspace resource. In part this omission has been due to the difficulties inherent in obtaining ecological data on gardens and the lack of a …