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<journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">ISPRS-Annals</journal-id>
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<journal-title>ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences</journal-title>
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<abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="nlm-ta">ISPRS Ann. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci.</abbrev-journal-title>
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<issn pub-type="epub">2194-9050</issn>
<publisher><publisher-name>Copernicus Publications</publisher-name>
<publisher-loc>Göttingen, Germany</publisher-loc>
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<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.5194/isprs-annals-XI-3-2026-205-2026</article-id>
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<article-title>Assessing the Impact of Spatial Resolution on Morphological Spatial Pattern Analysis of Urban Green Infrastructure Connectivity: A Case Study of Miami-Dade County, USA</article-title>
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<contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Moufid</surname>
<given-names>Oumayma</given-names>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Praharaj</surname>
<given-names>Sarbeswar</given-names>
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<addr-line>Hassania School of Public Works, Casablanca, Morocco</addr-line>
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<label>2</label>
<addr-line>Department of Geography and Sustainable Development and School of Architecture, University of Miami, FL, USA</addr-line>
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<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>08</day>
<month>07</month>
<year>2026</year>
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<volume>XI-3-2026</volume>
<fpage>205</fpage>
<lpage>213</lpage>
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<copyright-statement>Copyright: &#x000a9; 2026 Oumayma Moufid</copyright-statement>
<copyright-year>2026</copyright-year>
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<p>Urban green infrastructure plays a crucial role in supporting ecological connectivity, enhancing climate resilience, and promoting human well-being. As cities densify, maintaining functional green networks increasingly depends on understanding the structural continuity of vegetation within complex urban fabrics. Morphological Spatial Pattern Analysis (MSPA) provides a practical framework for quantifying green infrastructure structure; however, its sensitivity to spatial resolution remains insufficiently examined, particularly at metropolitan scales, where high-resolution data are becoming increasingly available. This study examines the impact of spatial resolution on MSPA outputs for mapping and interpreting urban green connectivity in Miami-Dade County, USA. Two scenarios were compared using 10-m canopy data and 2-m high-resolution canopy data processed across 23 tiles. The workflow integrated vegetation preprocessing, MSPA classification, and quantitative and visual comparisons of structural classes to assess scale effects. Results demonstrate that fine-resolution MSPA (2 m) preserves continuous canopy structures and narrow vegetated corridors that the 10-m analysis tends to fragment or omit. High-resolution outputs provide a more realistic representation of neighborhood-scale connectivity, especially in tree-dense areas such as Coral Gables, while also revealing the computational demands of metropolitan-scale MSPA processing. The findings confirm that MSPA results are inherently scale-dependent and that the choice of resolution critically shapes the interpretation of connectivity. This research provides an operational foundation for incorporating high-resolution morphological analyses into urban resilience planning, nature-based solutions, and socio-ecological equity assessments.</p>
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