Urban Remote Sensing

Hardcover  412 pp  ISBN 9780849391996      £40.00

• Covers recent developments in the field of urban remote sensing
• Incorporates contributions from leading international experts
• Includes literature review of basic concepts
• Offers a consistent style for each chapter
• Contains a full color insert of remotely sensed images

Driven by advances in technology and societal needs, the next frontier in remote sensing is urban areas. With the advent of high-resolution imagery and more capable techniques, the question has become "Now that we have the technology, how do we use it?" The need for a definitive resource that explores the technology of remote sensing and the issues it can resolve in an urban setting has never been more acute.

Containing contributions from world renowned experts, Urban Remote Sensing systematically examines all aspects of the field for the first time. It provides a review of basic concepts, methodologies, and case studies. Each chapter demonstrates how to apply up-to-date techniques to the problems identified and how to analyze research results.

Organized into five sections, this book-

• Focuses on data, sensors, and systems considerations as well as algorithms for urban feature extraction
• Analyzes urban landscapes in terms of composition and structure, especially using sub-pixel analysis techniques
• Presents methods for monitoring, analyzing, and modeling urban growth
• Illustrates various approaches to urban planning and socio-economic applications of urban remote sensing
• Assesses the progress made to date, identifies the existing problems and challenges, and demonstrates new developments and trends in urban remote sensing

This book is ideal for upper division undergraduate and graduate students, however it can also serve as a reference for researchers or those individuals interested in the remote sensing of cities in academia, and governmental and commercial sectors. Urban Remote Sensing examines how to apply remote sensing technology to urban and suburban areas.

Contents

URBAN FEATURE EXTRACTION

• True Orthoimage Generation for Urban Areas with Very High Buildings; Guoqing Zhou and John Kelmelis
• Urban Terrain and Building Extraction from Airborne LIDAR Data; Jie Shan and Aparajithan Sampath
• Reconstruction of Buildings in SAR Imagery of Urban Areas; Uwe Stilla and Uwe Soergel

URBAN COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE

• Subpixel Analysis of Urban Landscapes; Qihao Weng and Dengsheng Lu
• Bayesian Spectral Mixture Analysis for Urban Vegetation; Conghe Song
• Urban Mapping with Geospatial Algorithms; Soe W. Myint
• Applying Imaging Spectrometry in Urban Areas; Martin Herold Sebastian Schiefer, Patrick Hostert, and Dar A. Roberts

URBAN LAND DYNAMICS

• Urban Land Use Prediction Model with Spatiotemporal Data Mining and GIS; Weiguo Liu, Karen C. Seto, Zhanli Sun, and Yong Tian
• Assessing Urban Growth with Subpixel Impervious Surface Coverage; George Xian
• Remote Sensing and Urban Growth Theory; Martin Herold, Jeff Hemphill, and Kenneth C. Clarke

URBAN PLANNING AND SOCIOECONOMIC APPLICATIONS

• Urban Heat Island Identification and Climatologic Analysis in a Coastal, Tropical City: San Juan, Puerto Rico; Jorge E. González, Jeffrey C. Luvall, Douglas L. Rickman, Daniel Comarazamy, and Ana J. Picón
• Assessing Urban Environmental Quality with Multiple Parameters; Janet Elizabeth Nichol and Man Sing Wong
• Population Estimation and Interpolation Using Remote Sensing; Xiaohang Liu and Martin Herold
• Sociodemographic Characterization of Urban Areas Using Nighttime Imagery, Google Earth, Landsat, and "Social" Ground Truthing; Paul C. Sutton, Matthew J. Taylor, Sharolyn Anderson, and Christopher D. Elvidge
• Integration of Remote Sensing and Census Data for Assessing Urban Quality of Life: Model Development and Validation; Guiying Li and Qihao Weng

PROGRESS, PROBLEMS, AND PROSPECTS

• Mapping Human Settlements Using the Middle Infrared (3-5 µm): Advantages, Prospects, and Limitations; Geoffrey M. Henebry
• New Developments and Trends for Urban Remote Sensing; Manfred Ehlers
• Spectral Resolution in the Context of Very High Resolution Urban Remote Sensing; Paolo Gamba and Fabio Dell'Acqua