Remote Sensing of Urban and Suburban Areas - Rashed, Tarek; Jürgens, Carsten; SpringerLink (Online service) (Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2010)
Urban and Suburban Areas as a Research Topic for Remote Sensing -- Urban and Suburban Areas as a Research Topic for Remote Sensing -- Theoretical Aspects -- The Structure and Form of Urban Settlements -- Defining Urban Areas -- The Spectral Dimension in Urban Remote Sensing -- The Spatial and Temporal Nature of Urban Objects -- The V-I-S Model: Quantifying the Urban Environment -- Techniques and Applications -- A Survey of the Evolution of Remote Sensing Imaging Systems and Urban Remote Sensing Applications -- Classification of Urban Areas: Inferring Land Use from the Interpretation of Land Cover -- Processing Techniques for Hyperspectral Data -- Segmentation and Object-Based Image Analysis -- Data Fusion in Remote Sensing of Urban and Suburban Areas -- Characterization and Monitoring of Urban/Peri-urban Ecological Function and Landscape Structure Using Satellite Data -- Remote Sensing of Desert Cities in Developing Countries -- Remote Sensing of Urban Environmental Conditions -- Remote Sensing of Urban Land Use Change in Developing Countries: An Example from Büyükçekmece, Istanbul, Turkey -- Using Satellite Images in Policing Urban Environments -- Using DMSP OLS Imagery to Characterize Urban Populations in Developed and Developing Countries.
Keywords: Geographical information systems; Regional planning; Urban planning; Urban geography; Remote sensing; Geographical Information Systems/Cartography.; Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning; Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns).; Remote Sensing/Photogrammetry.