%0 Journal Article
%T Quality of Life Assessment Based on Spatial and Temporal Analysis of the Vegetation Area Derived from Satellite Images
%A MARIA IOANA VLAD
%A DRAGO£¿ BR£¿T£¿£¿ANU
%J Romanian Review of Regional Studies
%D 2011
%I Cluj University Press
%X The quality of life in urban areas is a function of many parameters among which, one highly important is the number and quality of green areas for people and wildlife to thrive. The quality of life is also a political concept often used to describe citizen satisfaction within different residential locations. Only in the last decades green areas have suffered a progressive decrease in quality, pointing out the ecological urban risk with a negative impact on the standard of living and population health status. This paper presents the evolution of green areas in the cities of South-Eastern Romania within the last 20 years and sets forth the current state of quality of life from the perspective of vegetation reference. By using state-of-the-art processing tools applied on high-resolution satellite images, we have derived knowledge about the spatial and temporal expansion of urbanized regions. Our semi-automatic technologies for analysis of remote sensing data such as Landsat 7 ETM+, correlated with statistical information inferred from urban charts, demonstrate a negative trend in the distribution of green areas within the analyzed cities, with long-term implications on multiple areas in our lives.
%K Environment
%K Green area
%K City
%K Satellite image
%K Statistical data
%U http://rrrs.reviste.ubbcluj.ro/arhive/Artpdf/v7n22011/RRRS72201113.pdf