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However, they are still limited by the transferability of samples, models, and classification results across space, particularly across different cities. Given the heterogeneities of environmental and socioeconomic conditions among cities, in-depth studies of data and model adaptation towards city-specific EULUC mappings are highly required to support policy making, and urban renewal planning and management practices. In addition, the trending need for timely and detailed small land unit data processing with finer data granularity becomes increasingly important. We proposed a City Meta Unit (CMU) data model and classification framework driven by multisource data and artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms to address these challenges. The CMU Framework was innovatively applied to systematically set up a grid-based data model and classify urban land use with an improved AI algorithm by applying Moore neighborhood correlations. Specifically, we selected Xiamen, Fujian, in China, a coastal city, as the typical testbed to implement this proposed framework and apply an AI transfer learning technique for grid and parcel land-use study. Experimental results with our proposed CMU framework showed that the grid-based land use classification performance achieves overall accuracies of 81.17% and 76.55% for level I (major classes) and level II (minor classes), which is much higher than the parcel-based land use classification (overall accuracies of 72.37% for level I, and 68.99% for level II). We further investigated the relationship between training sample size and classification performance and quantified the contribution of different data sources to urban land use classifications. The CMU framework makes data collections and processing intelligent and efficient, with finer granularity, saving time and cost by using existing open social data. Incorporating the CMU framework with the proposed grid-based model is an effective and new approach for urban land use classification, which can be flexibly extended and applied to various cities.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs14236143","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,12,5]],"date-time":"2022-12-05T05:31:32Z","timestamp":1670218292000},"page":"6143","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":8,"title":["Grid-Based Essential Urban Land Use Classification: A Data and Model Driven Mapping Framework in Xiamen City"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"14","author":[{"given":"Xi","family":"Wang","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Automation, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China"},{"name":"AI for Earth Laboratory, Cross-Strait Research Institute, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China"},{"name":"Tsinghua Urban Institute, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Bin","family":"Chen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Future Urbanity & Sustainable Environment (FUSE) Lab, Division of Landscape Architecture, Faculty of Architecture, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-6942-0746","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Xuecao","family":"Li","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Land Science and Technology, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100084, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Yuxin","family":"Zhang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"AI for Earth Laboratory, Cross-Strait Research Institute, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China"},{"name":"Tsinghua Urban Institute, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-4450-3489","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Xianyao","family":"Ling","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"AI for Earth Laboratory, Cross-Strait Research Institute, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Jie","family":"Wang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Peng Cheng Laboratory, Shenzhen 518000, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Weimin","family":"Li","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"2861 Data Technology, Tsinghua Science Park, Beijing 100084, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Wu","family":"Wen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Smart Steps Digital Technology, Joy City Office Building, Xicheng District, Beijing 100032, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Peng","family":"Gong","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Urban Systems Institute, Department of Geography and Department of Earth Sciences, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,12,3]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","unstructured":"(2020, July 16). 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