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Urban Ecosystem Services Quantification through Remote Sensing Approach: A Systematic Review

2019; Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute; Volume: 6; Issue: 5 Linguagem: Inglês

10.3390/environments6050051

2076-3298

Paulo Amador Tavares, Norma Ely Santos Beltrão, Ulisses Silva Guimarães, Ana Cláudia Teodoro, Paulo Vitor dos Santos Gonçalves,

Urban Heat Island Mitigation

Urban ecosystem services (UES) is an essential approach to the development of sustainable cities and must be incorporated into urban planning to be able to improve humans’ life quality. This paper aimed to identify remote sensing (RS) data/techniques used in the literature in five years (2013–2017) for UES investigation and to analyze the similarity between them. For this purpose, we used the Scopus database of scientific journals, and a set of appropriate filters were applied. A total of 44 studies were selected, being 93.18% of them located in the Northern Hemisphere, mostly in Europe. The most common dataset used was the secondary data, followed by the Landsat family products. Land use and land cover (LULC) was the most common approach utilized, succeeded by radiometric indexes and band related. All four main classes (provision, regulation, supporting, and cultural) of ecosystem services (ES) were identified in the reviewed papers, wherein regulating services were the most popular modality mentioned. Seven different groups were established as having 100% of similarity between methods and ES results. Therefore, RS is identified in the literature as an important technique to reach this goal. However, we highlight the lack of studies in the southern hemisphere.