Urban remote sensing / edited by Qihao Weng ,Dale A.Quattrochi - Boca Raton: CRC Press, 2007. - xii, 412 p.

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 SampathReconstruction of Buildings in SAR Imagery of Urban Areas; Uwe Stilla and Uwe SoergelURBAN COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURESubpixel 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. MyintApplying 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 TianAssessing Urban Growth with Subpixel Impervious Surface Coverage; George XianRemote Sensing and Urban Growth Theory; Martin Herold, Jeff Hemphill, and Kenneth C. ClarkeURBAN PLANNING AND SOCIOECONOMIC APPLICATIONSUrban Heat Island Identification and Climatologic Analysis in a Coastal, Tropical City: San Juan, Puerto Rico; Jorge E. Gonzalez, Jeffrey C. Luvall, Douglas L. Rickman, Daniel Comarazamy, and Ana J. PiconAssessing Urban Environmental Quality with Multiple Parameters; Janet Elizabeth Nichol and Man Sing WongPopulation Estimation and Interpolation Using Remote Sensing; Xiaohang Liu and Martin HeroldSociodemographic 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. ElvidgeIntegration of Remote Sensing and Census Data for Assessing Urban Quality of Life: Model Development and Validation; Guiying Li and Qihao WengPROGRESS, PROBLEMS, AND PROSPECTSMapping Human Settlements Using the Middle Infrared(3-5 m): Advantages, Prospects, and Limitations; Geoffrey M. HenebryNew Developments and Trends for Urban Remote Sensing; Manfred EhlersSpectral Resolution in the Context of Very High Resolution Urban Remote Sensing; Paolo Gamba and Fabio Dell'Acqua

Examines various aspects of the field of urban remote sensing. This volume provides a review of basic concepts, methodologies, and case studies. It analyzes urban landscapes in terms of composition and structure, especially using sub-pixel analysis techniques. It also presents methods for monitoring, analyzing, and modeling urban growth.

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Urban geography -- Remote sensing.

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