Urban Remote Sensing Monitoring, Synthesis and Modeling in the Urban Environment

by Yang, Xiaojun

• ISBN13: 9780470749586
• ISBN10: 047074958X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-04-25
• Publisher: Wiley

Summary

Urban Remote Sensing is designed for upper level undergraduates, graduates, researchers and practitioners, and will be the first to be written with the clear focus on the development of remote sensing technology for monitoring, synthesis and modeling in the urban environment. It covers four major areas: the use of high-resolution satellite imagery or alternative sources of image date (such as high-resolution SAR and LIDAR) for urban feature extraction; the development of improved image processing algorithms and techniques for deriving accurate and consistent information on urban attributes from remote sensor data; the development of analytical techniques and methods for deriving indicators of socioeconomic and environmental conditions that prevail within urban landscape; and the development of remote sensing and spatial analytical techniques for urban growth simulation and predictive modeling.

Author Biography

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).

Table of Contents

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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