What the spatial pattern of global urban surface area that human depends on is the important issue, which is widely concerned at present. A recent study has developed the datasets of global intro-urban impervious surface and green space fraction, effectively characterizing the spatial pattern of global urban surface area. The findings are reported in the English edition of the Science China Earth Sciences, Volume 62, 2019.
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