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Urban Remote Sensing

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.

  • A review of the essential and emerging research areas in urban remote sensing including sensors, techniques, and applications, especially some critical issues that are shifting thedirections in urban remote sensing research.
  • Illustrated in full color throughout, including numerous releva

    Table of Contents

    List of Contributors ix

    Authors Biography xv

    Preface xxvii

    Part I Introduction

    1 Progress in Urban Remote Sensing: An Overview 3
    Xiaojun Yang

    Part II Sensors and Systems for Urban Areas

    2 Examining Urban Built-up Volume: Three-Dimensional Analyses with Lidar and Radar Data 17
    Adam J. Mathews and Son V. Nghiem

    3 Opportunities and Challenges of Unmanned Aircraft Systems for Urban Applications 47
    Feilin Lai, Austin Bush, Xiaojun Yang, and David Merrick

    4 Methods of Social Sensing for Urban Studies 71
    Yu Liu, Song Gao, Yihong Yuan, Fan Zhang, Chaogui Kang, Yuhao Kang, and Keli Wang

    5 Urban Remote Sensing Using Ground-Based Street View Images 91
    Xiaojiang Li

    6 Spatial Distribution of City Tweets and Their Densities 115
    Bin Jiang, Ding Ma, Junjun Yin, and Mats Sandberg

    7 Integrating Remote Sensing and Social Sensing to Examine Socioeconomic Dynamics: A Case Study of Twitter and Nighttime Light Imagery 131
    Guofeng Cao and Naizhuo Zhao

    Part III Algorithms and Techniques for Urban Attribute Extraction

    8 Deep Learning for Urban and Landscape Mapping from Remotely Sensed Imagery 153
    Feilin Lai, Atharva Sharma, Xiuwen Liu, and Xiaojun Yang

    9 Google Earth Engine Advancing Urban Land Change Science 175
    Le Wang, Dameng Yin, Jinyan Tian, and Ying Lu

    10 Use of Image Endmember Libraries for Multi-Sensor, Multi-Scale, and Multi-Site Mapping of Urban Areas 189
    Frank Canters, Sam Cooper, Jeroen Degerickx, Uta Heiden, Marianne Jilge, Akpona Okujeni, Frederik Priem, Ben Somers, and Sebastian van der Linden

    11 Satellite Monitoring of Urbanization and Environmental Impacts in Stockholm, Sweden, Through a Multiscale Approach 217
    Dorothy Furberg and Yifang Ban

    Part IV Urban Socioeconomic Applications

    12 Global Monitoring with the Atlas of Urban Expansion 247
    Alejandro Blei and Shlomo Angel

    13 Effect of Image Classification Accuracy on Dasymetric Population Estimation 283
    Jacob McKee and Eric Weber

    14 Mapping the Morphology of Urban Deprivation: The Role of Remote Sensing for Developing a Global Slum Repository 305
    Monika Kuffer, Taïs Grippa, Claudio Persello, Hannes Taubenböck, Karin Pfeffer, and Richard Sliuzas

    15 The City is the Medium and Satellite Imagery Are a Prism: Conceptualizing Urban Conflict Damage Monitoring with Multitemporal Remote Sensing Data 325
    Jamon Van Den Hoek

    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
    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

    17 Thermal Infrared Imaging of the Urban Landscape to Understand Urban Microclimate 369
    Jinxin Yang, Massimo Menenti, Man S. Wong, Zhifeng Wu, Xiaoying Ouyang, Yong Xu, and Sawaid Abbas

    18 Monitoring Air Pollution in the Urban Environment by Remote Sensing 391
    Alexandra A. Chudnovsky

    19 Characterizing After-Rain Standing Waters in Urban Built Environments Through a Multilevel Image Analysis 423
    Tzai-Hung Wen, Hao-Yu Liao, Kai-Ling Yang, and Tzu-Hsin Karen Chen

    20 Remote Sensing and Urban Green Infrastructure: A Synthesis of Current Applications and New Advances 447
    Yanhua Chen, Giovanni Sanesi, Xun Li, Wendy Y. Chen, and Raffaele Lafortezza

    21 Remote Sensing for Urban Sustainability Research and Sustainable Development Goals: Green Space, Public Recreation Space, and Urban Climate 469
    Arthur Lehner and Thomas Blaschke

    Index 495

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    Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
    Publication Date: 29/10/2021
    ISBN13: 9781119625841, 978-1119625841
    ISBN10: 111962584X

    Description

    Book Synopsis
    Urban Remote Sensing

    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.

    • A review of the essential and emerging research areas in urban remote sensing including sensors, techniques, and applications, especially some critical issues that are shifting thedirections in urban remote sensing research.
    • Illustrated in full color throughout, including numerous releva

      Table of Contents

      List of Contributors ix

      Authors Biography xv

      Preface xxvii

      Part I Introduction

      1 Progress in Urban Remote Sensing: An Overview 3
      Xiaojun Yang

      Part II Sensors and Systems for Urban Areas

      2 Examining Urban Built-up Volume: Three-Dimensional Analyses with Lidar and Radar Data 17
      Adam J. Mathews and Son V. Nghiem

      3 Opportunities and Challenges of Unmanned Aircraft Systems for Urban Applications 47
      Feilin Lai, Austin Bush, Xiaojun Yang, and David Merrick

      4 Methods of Social Sensing for Urban Studies 71
      Yu Liu, Song Gao, Yihong Yuan, Fan Zhang, Chaogui Kang, Yuhao Kang, and Keli Wang

      5 Urban Remote Sensing Using Ground-Based Street View Images 91
      Xiaojiang Li

      6 Spatial Distribution of City Tweets and Their Densities 115
      Bin Jiang, Ding Ma, Junjun Yin, and Mats Sandberg

      7 Integrating Remote Sensing and Social Sensing to Examine Socioeconomic Dynamics: A Case Study of Twitter and Nighttime Light Imagery 131
      Guofeng Cao and Naizhuo Zhao

      Part III Algorithms and Techniques for Urban Attribute Extraction

      8 Deep Learning for Urban and Landscape Mapping from Remotely Sensed Imagery 153
      Feilin Lai, Atharva Sharma, Xiuwen Liu, and Xiaojun Yang

      9 Google Earth Engine Advancing Urban Land Change Science 175
      Le Wang, Dameng Yin, Jinyan Tian, and Ying Lu

      10 Use of Image Endmember Libraries for Multi-Sensor, Multi-Scale, and Multi-Site Mapping of Urban Areas 189
      Frank Canters, Sam Cooper, Jeroen Degerickx, Uta Heiden, Marianne Jilge, Akpona Okujeni, Frederik Priem, Ben Somers, and Sebastian van der Linden

      11 Satellite Monitoring of Urbanization and Environmental Impacts in Stockholm, Sweden, Through a Multiscale Approach 217
      Dorothy Furberg and Yifang Ban

      Part IV Urban Socioeconomic Applications

      12 Global Monitoring with the Atlas of Urban Expansion 247
      Alejandro Blei and Shlomo Angel

      13 Effect of Image Classification Accuracy on Dasymetric Population Estimation 283
      Jacob McKee and Eric Weber

      14 Mapping the Morphology of Urban Deprivation: The Role of Remote Sensing for Developing a Global Slum Repository 305
      Monika Kuffer, Taïs Grippa, Claudio Persello, Hannes Taubenböck, Karin Pfeffer, and Richard Sliuzas

      15 The City is the Medium and Satellite Imagery Are a Prism: Conceptualizing Urban Conflict Damage Monitoring with Multitemporal Remote Sensing Data 325
      Jamon Van Den Hoek

      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
      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

      17 Thermal Infrared Imaging of the Urban Landscape to Understand Urban Microclimate 369
      Jinxin Yang, Massimo Menenti, Man S. Wong, Zhifeng Wu, Xiaoying Ouyang, Yong Xu, and Sawaid Abbas

      18 Monitoring Air Pollution in the Urban Environment by Remote Sensing 391
      Alexandra A. Chudnovsky

      19 Characterizing After-Rain Standing Waters in Urban Built Environments Through a Multilevel Image Analysis 423
      Tzai-Hung Wen, Hao-Yu Liao, Kai-Ling Yang, and Tzu-Hsin Karen Chen

      20 Remote Sensing and Urban Green Infrastructure: A Synthesis of Current Applications and New Advances 447
      Yanhua Chen, Giovanni Sanesi, Xun Li, Wendy Y. Chen, and Raffaele Lafortezza

      21 Remote Sensing for Urban Sustainability Research and Sustainable Development Goals: Green Space, Public Recreation Space, and Urban Climate 469
      Arthur Lehner and Thomas Blaschke

      Index 495

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