{"product_id":"techniques-and-methods-in-urban-remote-sensing-hardback-9781118217733","title":"Techniques and Methods in Urban Remote Sensing (Hardback) 9781118217733","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eTechniques and Methods in Urban Remote Sensing\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eQihao Weng (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781118217733, Wiley\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 26 December 2019\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e384 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.6 x 15.8 x 2.3 cm, 0.726 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn authoritative guide to the essential techniques and most recent advances in urban remote sensing\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eTechniques and Methods in Urban Remote Sensing \u003c\/i\u003eoffers a comprehensive guide to the recent theories, methods, techniques, and applications in urban remote sensing. Written by a noted expert on the subject, this book explores the requirements for mapping impervious surfaces and examines the issue of scale. The book covers a range of topics and includes illustrative examples of commonly used methods for estimating and mapping urban impervious surfaces, explains how to determine urban thermal landscape and surface energy balance, and offers information on impacts of urbanization on land surface temperature, water quality, and environmental health.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eTechniques and Methods in Urban Remote Sensing \u003c\/i\u003ebrings together in one volume the latest opportunities for combining ever-increasing computational power, more plentiful and capable data, and more advanced algorithms. This allows the technologies of remote sensing and GIS to become mature and to gain wider and better applications in environments, ecosystems, resources, geosciences, geography and urban studies. This important book: \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eContains a comprehensive resource to the latest developments in urban remote sensing\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eExplains urban heat islands modeling and analysis\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eIncludes information on estimating urban surface energy fluxes\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eOffers a guide to generating data on land surface temperature\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003eWritten for professionals and students of environmental, ecological, civic and urban studies, \u003ci\u003eTechniques and Methods in Urban Remote Sensing \u003c\/i\u003emeets the demand for an updated resource that addresses the recent advances urban remote sensing. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface ix\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSynopsis of the Book xiii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments xvii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAbout the Author xix\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e1 Urban Mapping Requirements 1\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.1 Introduction 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.2 Spectral Resolution Requirement 3\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.3 Temporal Resolution Requirement 6\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.4 Spatial Resolution Requirement 7\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.5 Linear Spectral Mixture Analysis of Urban Landscape 9\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.6 Summary 25\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReferences 26\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2 The Scale Issue 33\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.1 Introduction 33\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.2 Urban Land Mapping and Categorical Scale 34\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.3 Observational Scale and Image Scene Models 36\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.4 Operational Scale 40\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.5 Scale Dependency of Urban Phenomena 41\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.6 Summary 46\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReferences 47\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e3 Building Extraction and Classification 55\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.1 Introduction 55\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.2 Building Reconstruction 56\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.3 Building Classification 64\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReferences 66\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e4 Estimation and Mapping of Impervious Surfaces 69\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.1 Introduction 69\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.2 Methods for Impervious Surface Extraction 70\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.3 Case Studies 72\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.4 Summary 85\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReferences 85\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e5 Land Surface Temperature Data Generation 91\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.1 Introduction 91\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.2 Generating Daily Land Surface Temperature by Data Fusion 95\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.3 Reconstructing Consistent LSTs at Landsat Resolution 111\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReferences 121\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e6 Urban Heat Islands Modeling and Analysis 129\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.1 Introduction 129\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.2 Characterizing UHIs Using a Convolution Model 130\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.3 Object‐Based Extraction of Hot Spots 138\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReferences 146\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e7 Estimation of Urban Surface Energy Fluxes 151\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.1 Introduction 151\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.2 Data and Methodology 154\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.3 Heat Fluxes in Four Seasons 160\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.4 Heat Fluxes by LULC Type 162\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.5 Extreme Values of Heat Fluxes 164\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.6 Anthropogenic Heat Discharge 166\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.7 Summary 167\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReferences 169\u003c\/p\u003e 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