Remote Sensing of Urban and Suburban Areas (eBook)

Acknowledgment
List of contributors
1. Urban and Suburban Areas as a Research Topic for Remote Sensing
Maik Netzband and Carsten Jürgens

Part I Theoretical Aspects

2. The Structure and Form of Urban Settlements
Elena Besussi, Nancy Chin, Michael Batty, and Paul Longley

3. Defining Urban Areas
John R. Weeks

4. The Spectral Dimension in Urban Remote Sensing
Martin Herold and Dar A. Roberts

5. The Spatial and Temporal Nature of Urban Objects
Richard Sliuzas, Monika Kuffer, and Ian Masser

6. The V-I-S Model: Quantifying the Urban Environment
Renee M. Gluch, Merrill K. Ridd

Part II Techniques and Applications

7. A Survey of the Evolution of Remote Sensing Imaging Systems and Urban Remote Sensing Applications
Debbie Fugate, Elena Tarnavsky, and Douglas Stow

8. Classification of Urban Areas: Inferring Land Use from the Interpretation of Land Cover
Victor Mesev

9. Processing Techniques for Hyperspectral Data
Patrick Hostert

10. Segmentation and Object-based Image Analysis
Elisabeth Schöpfer, Stefan Lang and Josef Strobl

11. Data Fusion in Remote Sensing of Urban and Suburban Areas
Thierry Rancin and Lucien Wald

12. Characterization and Monitoring of Urban/Peri-urban Ecological Function and Landscape Structure Using Satellite Data
William L. Stefanov and Maik Netzband

13. Remote Sensing of Desert Cities in Developing Countries
Mohamed Ait Belaid

14. Remote Sensing of Urban Environmental Conditions
Andy Kwarteng and Christopher Small

15. Remote Sensing of Urban Land Use Change in Developing Countries: An Example from Büyükçekmece, Istanbul, Turkey
Derya Maktav and Filiz Sunar Erbek

16. Using Satellite Images in Policing Urban Environments
Meshgan Al-Awar and Farouk El-Baz

17. Using DMSP OLS Imagery to Characterize Urban Populations in Developed and Developing Countries
Paul. C. Sutton, Matthew J. Taylor, and Christopher D. Elvidge

Index