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Abstract
Motivated by the large amount of available satellite data and increasing interest in the study of urbanization, this paper presents a way for better supervision of urbanization, as more and more people are looking to increase their quality of life by migrating to urban areas. This project is particularly useful for environmental researchers or citizens who are looking to make informed decisions. This project utilizes Sentinel Hub, a multi-spectral satellite imagery cloud service, to access Sentinel 2 data to detect changes in Romania’s urban environment automatically. Sentinel Hub’s spectral bands, which describe the reflectance properties of a surface, are used to compute spectral indices that highlight patterns in satellite images. The paper analyzes two urban indices that successfully map build-up regions and a vegetation index that assesses the degree of vegetation in an urbanized area. It employs different methods to enhance each index and evaluates its performance in a town that has seen rapid urban expansion.
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Computing infrastructures and systems are constantly evolving, resulting in increasingly complex and collaborative scientific applications. To cope with these advancements, there is a growing need for collaborative tools that can effectively map, control, and execute these applications.
Furthermore, with the explosion of Big Data, there is a requirement for innovative methods and infrastructures to collect, analyze, and derive meaningful insights from the vast amount of data generated. This necessitates the integration of computational and storage capabilities, databases, sensors, and human collaboration.
Future Generation Computer Systems aims to pioneer advancements in distributed systems, collaborative environments, high-performance computing, and Big Data analytics. It strives to stay at the forefront of developments in grids, clouds, and the Internet of Things (IoT) to effectively address the challenges posed by these wide-area, fully distributed sensing and computing systems.