Urban Remote Sensing, Second Edition assembles a team of
professional experts to provide a much-needed update on the applications
of remote sensing technology to urban and suburban areas. This book
reflects new developments in spaceborne and airborne sensors, image
processing methods and techniques, and wider applications of urban
remote sensing to meet societal and economic challenges. In various
sections of the book the authors address methods for upscaling urban
feature extraction to the global scale, new methods in mapping and
detecting urban landscape features and structures, and mapping and
monitoring urbanization in developing countries. Additionally, readers
are provided with valuable case studies such as the HEAT (Heat Energy
Assessment Technologies) project in Calgary, Canada and the use of VHR
(very high resolution) satellite monitoring in Salzburg, Austria to
tackle challenges of urban green planning.
Features
- Explores the most up-to-date developments in the field of urban remote
sensing
- Integrates both technical and practical aspects covering all different
topics of global urban growth issues
- Provides new and updated contributions addressing data mining of
remotely sensed big data, recent urban studies on a global scale,
accuracy assessment and validation, and new technical challenges
- Examines various applications of urban remote sensing in support of
urban planning, environmental management, and sustainable urban
development
- Authors are renowned figures in the field of remote sensing
