Measuring Greenspace in Rural Areas for Studies of Birth Outcomes: A Comparison of Street View Data and Satellite Data.

Autor: Shi X; Department of Geography Dartmouth College Hanover NH USA., Zhang F; School of Earth and Space Sciences Institute of Remote Sensing and Geographical Information System Peking University Beijing China., Chipman JW; Department of Geography Dartmouth College Hanover NH USA., Li M; Department of Geography Dartmouth College Hanover NH USA., Khatchikian C; Department of Epidemiology Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth Lebanon NH USA., Karagas MR; Department of Epidemiology Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth Lebanon NH USA.; Children's Environmental Health and Disease Prevention Research Center at Dartmouth Hanover NH USA.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: GeoHealth [Geohealth] 2024 Mar 28; Vol. 8 (4), pp. e2024GH001012. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Mar 28 (Print Publication: 2024).
DOI: 10.1029/2024GH001012
Abstrakt: Using street view data, in replace of remotely sensed (RS) data, to study the health impact of greenspace has become popular. However, direct comparisons of these two methods of measuring greenspace are still limited, and their findings are inconsistent. On the other hand, almost all studies of greenspace focus on urban areas. The effectiveness of greenspace in rural areas remains to be investigated. In this study, we compared measures of greenspace based on the Google Street View data with those based on RS data by calculating the correlation between the two and evaluating their associations with birth outcomes. Besides the direct measures of greenness, we also compared the measures of environmental diversity, calculated with the two types of data. Our study area consists of the States of New Hampshire and Vermont, USA, which are largely rural. Our results show that the correlations between the two types of greenness measures were weak to moderate, and the greenness at an eye-level view largely reflects the immediate surroundings. Neither the street view data- nor the RS data-based measures identify the influence of greenspace on birth outcomes in our rural study area. Interestingly, the environmental diversity was largely negatively associated with birth outcomes, particularly gestational age. Our study revealed that in rural areas, the effectiveness of greenspace and environmental diversity may be considerably different from that in urban areas.
Competing Interests: The authors declare no conflicts of interest relevant to this study.
(© 2024 The Authors. GeoHealth published by Wiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of American Geophysical Union.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
Externí odkaz: