Scale Issues in Remote Sensing (eBook)

QIHAO WENG, PHD, is a Professor and Director from Indiana State University; an Associate Editor of ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing; the series editor for both Taylor & Francis Series in Remote Sensing Applications and McGraw-Hill Series in GIS&T; and has published more than 150 refereed journal articles and book chapters. He is the Coordinator for GEO Global Urban Observation & Information Task (2012-2015) and was a National Director of American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. Dr. Weng was awarded a senior fellowship from NASA in 2008 and an Outstanding Contributions Award in Remote Sensing from American Association of Geographers in 2011.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 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