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Book SynopsisThis book provides up-to-date developments, methods, and techniques in the field of GIS and remote sensing and features articles from internationally renowned authorities on three interrelated perspectives of scaling issues: scale in land surface properties, land surface patterns, and land surface processes.
Table of ContentsACKNOWLEDGMENTS ix
CONTRIBUTORS xi
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY xv
INTRODUCTION 1
1 Characterizing, Measuring, Analyzing, and Modeling Scale in Remote Sensing: An Overview 3
Qihao Weng
PART I SCALE, MEASUREMENT, MODELING, AND ANALYSIS 11
2 Scale Issues in Multisensor Image Fusion 13
Manfred Ehlers and Sascha Klonus
3 Thermal Infrared Remote Sensing for Analysis of Landscape Ecological Processes: Current Insights and Trends 34
Dale A. Quattrochi and Jeffrey C. Luvall
4 On the Issue of Scale in Urban Remote Sensing 61
Qihao Weng
PART II SCALE IN REMOTE SENSING OF PLANTS AND ECOSYSTEMS 79
5 Change Detection Using Vegetation Indices and Multiplatform Satellite Imagery at Multiple Temporal and Spatial Scales 81
Edward P. Glenn, Pamela L. Nagler, and Alfredo R. Huete
6 Upscaling with Conditional Cosimulation for Mapping Above-Ground Forest Carbon 108
Guangxing Wang and Maozhen Zhang
7 Estimating Grassland Chlorophyll Content from Leaf to Landscape Level: Bridging the Gap in Spatial Scales 126
Yuhong He
PART III SCALE AND LAND SURFACE PROCESSES 139
8 Visualizing Scale-Domain Manifolds: A Multiscale Geo-Object-Based Approach 141
Geoffrey J. Hay
9 Multiscale Segmentation and Classification of Remote Sensing Imagery with Advanced Edge and Scale-Space Features 170
Angelos Tzotsos, Konstantinos Karantzalos, and Demetre Argialas
10 Optimum Scale in Object-Based Image Analysis 197
Jungho Im, Lindi J. Quackenbush, Manqi Li, and Fang Fang
PART IV SCALE AND LAND SURFACE PATTERNS 215
11 Scaling Issues in Studying the Relationship Between Landscape Pattern and Land Surface Temperature 217
Hua Liu and Qihao Weng
12 Multiscale Fractal Characteristics of Urban Landscape in Indianapolis, USA 230
Bingqing Liang and Qihao Weng
13 Spatiotemporal Scales of Remote Sensing Precipitation 253
Yang Hong and Yu Zhang
PART V NEW FRONTIERS IN EARTH OBSERVATION TECHNOLOGY 265
14 Multiscale Approach for Ground Filtering from Lidar Altimetry Measurements 267
JoseeL. Silvan-Cárdenas and Le Wang
15 Hyperspectral Remote Sensing with Emphasis on Land Cover Mapping: From Ground to Satellite Observations 285
George P. Petropoulos, Kiril Manevski, and Toby N. Carlson
INDEX 321
