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Xiaojun Yang has authored or co-authored more than 70 publications including two edited volumes on urban remote sensing. He was a guest editor for ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Photogrametrical Engineering and Remote Sensing, International Journal of Remote Sensing, and Computer, Environment and Urban Systems. Yang has been involved in organizing urban remote sensing sessions at the annual meetings of the Association of American Geographers (AAG) since 2001. This series of events has become a major urban remote sensing forum in USA. Yang currently serves as Chair of Commission on Mapping for Satellite Imagery, International Cartographic Association (ICA).
List of Contributors | |
Author's Biography | |
Preface | |
Introduction | |
What is urban remote sensing? | |
Remote Sensing Systems For Urban Areas | |
Use of archival Landsat imagery to monitor urban spatial growth | |
Limits and challenges of optical very-high-spatial-resolution satellite remote sensing for urban applications | |
Potential of hyperspectral remote sensing for analyzing the urban environment | |
Very-high-resolution spaceborne synthetic aperture radar and urban areas: looking into details of a complex environment | |
3D building reconstruction from airborne lidar point clouds fused with aerial imagery | |
Algorithms And Techniques For Urban Attribute Extraction | |
Parameterizing neural network models to improve land classification performance | |
Characterizing urban subpixel composition using spectral mixture analysis | |
An object-oriented pattern recognition approach for urban classification | |
Spatial enhancement of multispectral images on urban areas | |
Exploring the temporal lag between the structure and function of urban areas | |
Urban Socioeconomic Analyses | |
A pluralistic approach to defining and measuring urban sprawl | |
Small area population estimation with high-resolution remote sensing and lidar | |
Dasymetric mapping for population and sociodemographic data redistribution | |
Who's in the dark-satellite based estimates of electrification rates | |
Integrating remote sensing and GIS for environmental justice research | |
Urban Environmental Analyses | |
Remote sensing of high resolution urban impervious surfaces | |
Use of impervious surface data obtained from remote sensing in distributed hydrological modeling of urban areas | |
Impacts of urban growth on vegetation carbon sequestration | |
Characterizing biodiversity in urban areas using remote sensing | |
Urban weather, climate and air quality modeling: increasing resolution and accuracy using improved urban morphology | |
Urban Growth And Landscape Change Modeling | |
Cellular automata and agent base models for urban studies: from pixels to cells to hexa-dpi's | |
Calibrating and validating cellular automata models of urbanization | |
Agent-based urban modeling:simulating urban growth and subsequent landscape change in suzhou, china | |
Ecological modeling in urban environments: predicting changes in biodiversity in response to future urban development | |
Rethinking progress in urban analysis and modeling: models, metaphors, and meaning | |
Index. | |
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