THE WORM’S EYE | A NEW LENS FOR URBANIZATION Geospatial Software Design PennDesign Wenhao Wu
Bird’s Eye View
Bird’s Eye View of the Gold Stocks, thedailygold.com
Urbanization in Bird’s Eye View
Guangzhou 1984
Urbanization in Bird’s Eye View
Guangzhou 1995
Urbanization in Bird’s Eye View
Guangzhou 2015
Urbanization in Bird’s Eye View
The Worm’s Eye View
Worm’s Eye View, panoramio.com
Urbanization in the Worm’s Eye View
New Urban Expansion
Urban Area at Year 1
Urban Area at Year 0
Urbanization in the Worm’s Eye View
Urban
Rural
Intensity of Change
Urbanization in the Worm’s Eye View
Tool: Global Computing
Tool: Global Computing other Designer/ Planner ... Conventional Data
Designer/ Planner
Data stored on the cloud
other Designer/ Planner ...
Customized Algorithms
Nightlight
https://code.earthengine.google.com/
Largest Continuous Urban Agglomeration
Large Conurbation Identification
Nightlight Trend
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Projected Nightlight Trend
Projected Nightlight Trend
Lansat Imagery
Guangzhou
Foshan
Edge Identification
Guangzhou
Foshan
Industrial Concentration Areas
Guangzhou
Foshan
Urban Expansion Typologies
Percent of Built-up Area in 1KM neighborhood Here the ReduceNeighborhood operation was used to calculate the share of built-up pixels within a 1KM neighborhood of any built-up pixel.
Urban Area
Sub-urban Area
Percent of Open Countryside in 1KM neighborhood Similarly, here the ReduceNeighborhood operation was used to calculate the share of open countryside pixels within a 1KM neighborhood of any open countryside pixel.
Captured Open Space Fringe Open Space
Exterior Open Space
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