Examinando por Autor "Patino J.E."

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    A review of regional science applications of satellite remote sensing in urban settings
    (Elsevier Sci Ltd, 2013-01) Patino, J. E.; Duque, Juan C.; Universidad EAFIT. Escuela de Economía y Finanzas. Research in Spatial Economics (RiSE), Carrera 49 7 Sur-50, Medellín, Colombia.; Universidad EAFIT. Departamento de Economía y Finanzas; Patino, J.E. (jpatinoq@eafit.edu.co); Duque, Juan C. (jduquec1@eafit.edu.co); Research in Spatial Economics (RiSE); Research in Spatial Economics (RISE)
    This paper reviews the potential applications of satellite remote sensing to regional science research in urban settings. Regional science is the study of social problems that have a spatial dimension. The availability of satellite remote sensing data has increased significantly in the last two decades, and these data constitute a useful data source for mapping the composition of urban settings and analyzing changes over time. The increasing spatial resolution of commercial satellite imagery has influenced the emergence of new research and applications of regional science in urban settlements because it is now possible to identify individual objects of the urban fabric. The most common applications found in the literature are the detection of urban deprivation hot spots, quality of life index assessment, urban growth analysis, house value estimation, urban population estimation and urban social vulnerability assessment. The satellite remote sensing imagery used in these applications has medium, high or very high spatial resolution, such as images from Landsat MSS, Landsat TM and ETM+, SPOT, ASTER, IRS, Ikonos and QuickBird. Consistent relationships between socio-economic variables derived from censuses and field surveys and proxy variables of vegetation coverage measured from satellite remote sensing data have been found in several cities in the US. Different approaches and techniques have been applied successfully around the world, but local research is always needed to account for the unique elements of each place. Spectral mixture analysis, object-oriented classifications and image texture measures are some of the techniques of image processing that have been implemented with good results. Many regional scientists remain skeptical that satellite remote sensing will produce useful information for their work. More local research is needed to demonstrate the real potential and utility of satellite remote sensing for regional science in urban environments.
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    Spatiotemporal dynamics of urban growth in Latin American cities: An analysis using nighttime light imagery
    (ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV, 2019-01-01) Duque J.C.; Lozano-Gracia N.; Patino J.E.; Restrepo P.; Velasquez W.A.; Universidad EAFIT. Departamento de Economía y Finanzas; Research in Spatial Economics (RISE)
    The impact of urban form on economic performance and quality of life has been widely recognized. Studies regarding urban form have focused on developed countries; only a small number of cities in developing countries have been studied. This paper utilizes nighttime light imagery and information regarding street networks, automatically retrieved from OpenStreetMap, to calculate a series of spatial metrics that capture different aspects of the urban form of 919 Latin American and Caribbean cities. We study the relationship between the urban form metrics and several factors that can correlate with urban form (topography, size, colony, and economic performance) and perform a spatiotemporal analysis of urban growth from 1996 to 2010. Among the results, we highlight the tendency of a group of cities to grow on steeper slopes and several worrying aspects, specifically urban growth in protected areas and a trend to sprawl-growing in certain Latin American and Caribbean cities. © 2019 Elsevier B.V.