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 the directions in urban remote sensing research. - Illustrated in full color throughout, including numerous relevant case studies and extensive discussions of important concepts and cutting-edge technologies to enable clearer understanding for non-technical audiences.
Urban Remote Sensing, Second Edition will be of particular interest to upper-division undergraduate and graduate students, researchers and professionals working in the fields of remote sensing, geospatial information, and urban & environmental planning.
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
