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Urban Remote Sensing (2nd Ed.)
Monitoring, Synthesis and Modeling in the Urban Environment
Coordinator: Yang Xiaojun X.
Language: EnglishSubject for Urban Remote Sensing:
Keywords
urban remote sensing; remote sensing innovations; urban morphology; socio-environmental dynamics; sustainability; urban planning; GIS; remote sensing; environmental science; sustainabilty science; case studies North America and Europe; emerging research areas; geospatial information emerging research areas; sensors; remote sensing; urban environmental planning The second edition of Urban Remote Sensing is a state-of-the-art review of the latest progress in the subject. The text examines how evolving innovations in remote sensing allow to deliver the critical information on cities in a timely and cost-effective way to support various urban management activities and the scientific research on urban morphology, socio-environmental dynamics, and sustainability. Chapters are written by leading scholars from a variety of disciplines including remote sensing, GIS, geography, urban planning, environmental science, and sustainability science, with case studies predominately drawn from North America and Europe. Urban Remote Sensing, Second Edition will be of particular interest to upper-division undergraduate and graduate students, researchers and professionals working in the fields of remote sensing, geospatial information, and urban & environmental planning. List of Contributors ix Authors Biography xv Preface xxvii Part I Introduction 1 Progress in Urban Remote Sensing: An Overview 3 Part II Sensors and Systems for Urban Areas 2 Examining Urban Built-up Volume: Three-Dimensional Analyses with Lidar and Radar Data 17 3 Opportunities and Challenges of Unmanned Aircraft Systems for Urban Applications 47 4 Methods of Social Sensing for Urban Studies 71 5 Urban Remote Sensing Using Ground-Based Street View Images 91 6 Spatial Distribution of City Tweets and Their Densities 115 7 Integrating Remote Sensing and Social Sensing to Examine Socioeconomic Dynamics: A Case Study of Twitter and Nighttime Light Imagery 131 Part III Algorithms and Techniques for Urban Attribute Extraction 8 Deep Learning for Urban and Landscape Mapping from Remotely Sensed Imagery 153 9 Google Earth Engine Advancing Urban Land Change Science 175 10 Use of Image Endmember Libraries for Multi-Sensor, Multi-Scale, and Multi-Site Mapping of Urban Areas 189 11 Satellite Monitoring of Urbanization and Environmental Impacts in Stockholm, Sweden, Through a Multiscale Approach 217 Part IV Urban Socioeconomic Applications 12 Global Monitoring with the Atlas of Urban Expansion 247 13 Effect of Image Classification Accuracy on Dasymetric Population Estimation 283 14 Mapping the Morphology of Urban Deprivation: The Role of Remote Sensing for Developing a Global Slum Repository 305 15 The City is the Medium and Satellite Imagery Are a Prism: Conceptualizing Urban Conflict Damage Monitoring with Multitemporal Remote Sensing Data 325 Part V Urban Environmental Applications 16 US Cities in the Dark: Mapping Man-Made Carbon Dioxide Emissions Over the Contiguous US Using NASA’s Black Marble Nighttime Lights Product 337 17 Thermal Infrared Imaging of the Urban Landscape to Understand Urban Microclimate 369 18 Monitoring Air Pollution in the Urban Environment by Remote Sensing 391 19 Characterizing After-Rain Standing Waters in Urban Built Environments Through a Multilevel Image Analysis 423 20 Remote Sensing and Urban Green Infrastructure: A Synthesis of Current Applications and New Advances 447 21 Remote Sensing for Urban Sustainability Research and Sustainable Development Goals: Green Space, Public Recreation Space, and Urban Climate 469 Index 495 About the Editor Dr Xiaojun Yang is a tenured Full Professor of Geography in the College of Social Sciences and Public Policy at Florida State University, USA.
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Xiaojun Yang
Adam J. Mathews and Son V. Nghiem
Feilin Lai, Austin Bush, Xiaojun Yang, and David Merrick
Yu Liu, Song Gao, Yihong Yuan, Fan Zhang, Chaogui Kang,Yuhao Kang, and Keli Wang
Xiaojiang Li
Bin Jiang, Ding Ma, Junjun Yin, and Mats Sandberg
Guofeng Cao and Naizhuo Zhao
Feilin Lai, Atharva Sharma, Xiuwen Liu, and Xiaojun Yang
Le Wang, Dameng Yin, Jinyan Tian, and Ying Lu
Frank Canters, Sam Cooper, Jeroen Degerickx, Uta Heiden, Marianne Jilge, Akpona Okujeni, Frederik Priem, Ben Somers, and Sebastian van der Linden
Dorothy Furberg and Yifang Ban
Alejandro Blei and Shlomo Angel
Jacob McKee and Eric Weber
Monika Kuffer, Taïs Grippa, Claudio Persello, Hannes Taubenböck, Karin Pfeffer, and Richard Sliuzas
Jamon Van Den Hoek
Tomohiro Oda, Miguel O. Román, Zhuosen Wang, Eleanor C. Stokes, Qingsong Sun, Ranjay M. Shrestha, Sha Feng, Thomas Lauvaux, Rostyslav Bun, Shamil Maksyutov, Srija Chakraborty, Ian Paynter, and Virginia L. Kalb
Jinxin Yang, Massimo Menenti, Man S. Wong, Zhifeng Wu, Xiaoying Ouyang, Yong Xu, and Sawaid Abbas
Alexandra A. Chudnovsky
Tzai-Hung Wen, Hao-Yu Liao, Kai-Ling Yang, and Tzu-Hsin Karen Chen
Yanhua Chen, Giovanni Sanesi, Xun Li, Wendy Y. Chen, and Raffaele Lafortezza
Arthur Lehner and Thomas Blaschke
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