城市规模的全球一致性,由遥感证明
Zhibang Xu1, Gang Xu2,3, Ting Lan1
1State Key Laboratory for Ecological Security of Regions and Cities, Institute of Urban Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xiamen 361021, China.
PNAS nexus
|February 14, 2025
概括
城市扩展理论 (UST) 使用城市建筑区 (UBA) 和夜间灯光 (NTL) 的遥感数据显示了城市增长的一致模式. 然而,社会经济差异在各国和城市规模之间仍然存在.
科学领域:
- 城市研究是城市研究.
- 地理信息学是一种地理信息学.
- 复杂的系统复杂的系统.
背景情况:
- 城市缩放理论 (UST) 旨在实现城市尺寸与城市尺寸的普遍城市指标关系.
- 国际比较受到不一致的城市定义和统计数据的阻碍.
- 遥感提供了一个标准化的全球测量方法.
研究的目的:
- 通过远程传感数据仔细检查USTT的一致性.
- 从2000年到2020年,量化城市建筑区 (UBA) 和夜间照明 (NTL) 的变化.
- 将基于遥感的USTT与特定国家统计数据进行比较.
主要方法:
- 分析了 61 个国家的 11,581 个城市的远程传感 UBA 和 NTL (2000-2020).
- 物理 (UBA) 和社会经济 (NTL) 指标的量化城市缩放指数 (β).
- 从远程传感获得的比较缩放特性与汇总统计数据.
主要成果:
- 在所有国家,UBA 始终遵循 UST; NTL 在 98% 的水平上保持一致.
- 基于遥感的USTT比特定国家的统计数据更强大.
- 观察到UBA的亚线性缩放 (β < 1) 和NTL的变量缩放 (0.461.22,中位数0.94).
- 在拥有广泛建筑环境的国家中发现了更强大的扩展关系.
结论:
- 基于遥感的UST揭示了全球一致的城市增长模式.
- 不同规模和不同增长轨迹的城市系统之间存在系统性的社会经济差异.
- 将UBA和NTL进行比较,可以捕捉到互补的城市特征,减轻可修改面积单位问题.
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