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Book Hyperspectral Remote Sensing in Urban Environments

Download or read book Hyperspectral Remote Sensing in Urban Environments written by Shailesh Shankar Deshpande and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2023-10-31 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is intended to provide a detailed perspective on techniques and challenges in detecting urban materials using hyperspectral data including a systematic perspective on the spectral properties of the materials and methods. It adopts a process chain approach in describing the topic and explains image processing steps from reflectance calibration to final insights. The objective of the book is to provide in-depth information on hyperspectral remote sensing of urban materials covering global case studies as applicable. Features: Covers the complete processing chain of hyperspectral data specifically in urban environments; Gives more information about the mapping and classification of urban scenes; Includes information from basic imaging spectroscopy to advanced methods such as deep learning for imaging spectroscopy; Reviews detailed spectral characteristics of urban materials commonly found in world cities; Discusses advanced supervised methods such as deep learning with a due focus on hyperspectral data analysis. This book is aimed at professionals and graduate students in Hyperspectral Imaging, Urban Remote Sensing, and Hyperspectral Image Processing.

Book Hyperspectral Remote Sensing and the Urban Environment

Download or read book Hyperspectral Remote Sensing and the Urban Environment written by Sedat Arkun and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Urban Remote Sensing

Download or read book Urban Remote Sensing written by Xiaojun X. Yang and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2021-10-06 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Urban Remote Sensing 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.

Book Remote Sensing Applications for the Urban Environment

Download or read book Remote Sensing Applications for the Urban Environment written by George Z. Xian and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2015-10-09 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Land use and land cover changes associated with increased urbanization have led to landscape and environmental changes throughout the world. Remote Sensing Applications for the Urban Environment places emphasis on the rapid development of worldwide urbanization and its impact on the environment, and reviews the assessment of urban land cover condit

Book Hyperspectral Remote Sensing

Download or read book Hyperspectral Remote Sensing written by Prem Chandra Pandey and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2020-08-05 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hyperspectral Remote Sensing: Theory and Applications offers the latest information on the techniques, advances and wide-ranging applications of hyperspectral remote sensing, such as forestry, agriculture, water resources, soil and geology, among others. The book also presents hyperspectral data integration with other sources, such as LiDAR, Multi-spectral data, and other remote sensing techniques. Researchers who use this resource will be able to understand and implement the technology and data in their respective fields. As such, it is a valuable reference for researchers and data analysts in remote sensing and Earth Observation fields and those in ecology, agriculture, hydrology and geology. - Includes the theory of hyperspectral remote sensing, along with techniques and applications across a variety of disciplines - Presents the processing, methods and techniques utilized for hyperspectral remote sensing and in-situ data collection - Provides an overview of the state-of-the-art, including algorithms, techniques and case studies

Book Urban Remote Sensing

Download or read book Urban Remote Sensing written by Xiaojun Yang and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-04-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Urban Remote Sensing is designed for upper level undergraduates, graduates, researchers and practitioners, and has a clear focus on the development of remote sensing technology for monitoring, synthesis and modeling in the urban environment. It covers four major areas: the use of high-resolution satellite imagery or alternative sources of image date (such as high-resolution SAR and LIDAR) for urban feature extraction; the development of improved image processing algorithms and techniques for deriving accurate and consistent information on urban attributes from remote sensor data; the development of analytical techniques and methods for deriving indicators of socioeconomic and environmental conditions that prevail within urban landscape; and the development of remote sensing and spatial analytical techniques for urban growth simulation and predictive modeling.

Book Urban Remote Sensing

Download or read book Urban Remote Sensing written by Qihao Weng and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2018-02-20 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Urban Remote Sensing, Second Edition assembles a team of professional experts to provide a much-needed update on the applications of remote sensing technology to urban and suburban areas. This book reflects new developments in spaceborne and airborne sensors, image processing methods and techniques, and wider applications of urban remote sensing to meet societal and economic challenges. In various sections of the book the authors address methods for upscaling urban feature extraction to the global scale, new methods in mapping and detecting urban landscape features and structures, and mapping and monitoring urbanization in developing countries. Additionally, readers are provided with valuable case studies such as the HEAT (Heat Energy Assessment Technologies) project in Calgary, Canada and the use of VHR (very high resolution) satellite monitoring in Salzburg, Austria to tackle challenges of urban green planning. Features Explores the most up-to-date developments in the field of urban remote sensing Integrates both technical and practical aspects covering all different topics of global urban growth issues Provides new and updated contributions addressing data mining of remotely sensed big data, recent urban studies on a global scale, accuracy assessment and validation, and new technical challenges Examines various applications of urban remote sensing in support of urban planning, environmental management, and sustainable urban development Authors are renowned figures in the field of remote sensing

Book Remote Sensing of Urban and Suburban Areas

Download or read book Remote Sensing of Urban and Suburban Areas written by Tarek Rashed and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-06-03 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Remote Sensing of Urban and Suburban Areas" provides instructors with a text reference that has a logical and easy-to-follow flow of topics around which they can structure the syllabi of their urban remote sensing courses. Topics have been chosen to bridge the gap between remote sensing and urban studies through a better understanding of the science that underlies both fields. In so doing, the book includes 17 chapters written by leading international experts in respected fields to provide a balanced coverage of fundamental issues in both remote sensing and urban studies. Emphasis is placed on: theoretical and practical issues in contemporary urban studies and remote sensing; the spectral, spatial and temporal requirements of remotely sensed data in relation to various urban phenomena; methods and techniques for analyzing and integrating remotely sensed data and image processing with geographic information systems to address urban problems; and examples of applications in which applying remote sensing to tackle urban problems is deemed useful and important.

Book Applied Remote Sensing for Urban Planning  Governance and Sustainability

Download or read book Applied Remote Sensing for Urban Planning Governance and Sustainability written by Maik Netzband and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-12-10 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This evaluation of the potential of remote sensing of urban areas helps to close a gap between the research-focused results offered by the "urban remote sensing" community, and the application of these data and products by the governing bodies of cities and urban regions. The authors present data from six urban regions worldwide. They explain what the important questions are, and how data and scientific skills can help answer them.

Book Earth Wars

Download or read book Earth Wars written by Geoff Hiscock and published by Wiley. This book was released on 2012-04-09 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating insight into the global battle for our energy future The global competition for scarce natural resources that pits the West against the super-hot economies of China and India, plus a clutch of other contenders including Russia, Brazil, and Indonesia, has become one of the biggest issues facing the world today. Whether it is the rare metal lithium found in salt pans in the Andes, gas from the Caspian Sea, oil off the coast of Brazil, coal from Africa's Zambezi River, or uranium from Kazakhstan, China and India are desperate to ensure the security of their future energy supplies. The same goes for food and water, as contamination and over-use take their toll, the need to provide continued access for the next generation and beyond has increased exponentially. In Earth Wars: The Battle for Global Resources, international business journalist Geoff Hiscock explores the problems, potential solutions, and inevitable tensions in this ongoing scramble for finite natural resources. Going beyond "big power" politics to explore resource ownership and the use of innovative technology to get the most out of them, the book takes a forward-looking approach to this pressing issue. Written in clear, jargon-free language, it tells the global resources story in a fresh and engaging way that anyone can understand. Includes insightful, up-to-the-minute coverage of the most pressing debates over resource allocations Discusses the major Chinese and Indian businesses that are just becoming known to those in the West (Sinopec, CNOOC, CNPC, Indian Oil, ONGC, Reliance, Coal India, SAIL, and many others) Presents resource- and region-specific chapters to help readers view the pertinent issues from multiple angles As the economies of China and India grow to challenge those of the West, the battle over natural resources will continue to heat up. Earth Wars looks at this very real problem in-depth, presenting a definitive look at one of the greatest challenges of our time.

Book Earth Observation in Urban Monitoring

Download or read book Earth Observation in Urban Monitoring written by Amit Kumar and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2023-11-09 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Earth Observation in Urban Monitoring: Techniques and Challenges presents the latest techniques of remote sensing in urban monitoring, along with methods for quantitative and qualitative assessment using state-of-the-art Earth observation technologies. The book details the advances of remote sensing technologies in urban environmental monitoring for a range of practical and research applications, Earth observation datasets, remote sensing of environmental considerations, geostatistical techniques and resilience perspectives. Chapters cover sensor applications, urban growth modelling, SAR applications, surveying techniques, satellite time series analysis and a variety of other remote sensing technologies for urban monitoring. Each chapter includes detailed case studies at a variety of scales and from a variety of geographies, offering up-to-date, global, urban monitoring methodologies for researchers, scientists and academics in remote sensing, geospatial research, environmental science and sustainability. - Focuses on a variety of interdisciplinary applications using Earth observation data, GIS and soft computing techniques to address various challenges in urban monitoring - Provides numerous case studies at a variety of scales, from local to global, to aid readers in implementing urban monitoring techniques at any level - Includes theoretical and applied research contributions along with background information on the use of concurrent technologies in the disciplines of urban studies

Book Techniques and Methods in Urban Remote Sensing

Download or read book Techniques and Methods in Urban Remote Sensing written by Qihao Weng and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2019-10-31 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An authoritative guide to the essential techniques and most recent advances in urban remote sensing Techniques and Methods in Urban Remote Sensing offers 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. Techniques and Methods in Urban Remote Sensing brings 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: Contains a comprehensive resource to the latest developments in urban remote sensing Explains urban heat islands modeling and analysis Includes information on estimating urban surface energy fluxes Offers a guide to generating data on land surface temperature Written for professionals and students of environmental, ecological, civic and urban studies, Techniques and Methods in Urban Remote Sensing meets the demand for an updated resource that addresses the recent advances urban remote sensing.

Book Remote Sensing of Urban Environment

Download or read book Remote Sensing of Urban Environment written by B. S. Sokhi and published by Manak Publication. This book was released on 1999 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributed essays; with reference to India.

Book Hyperspectral Imaging and Association Phenomenology of Pedestrians in a Cluttered Urban Environment

Download or read book Hyperspectral Imaging and Association Phenomenology of Pedestrians in a Cluttered Urban Environment written by Jared A. Herweg and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Remote hyperspectral imaging (HSI) has shown promise in several applications such as object detection and tracking. Typically research has focused on large objects, such as vehicles, for tracking due to the spatial resolution of current operational HSI systems. This research seeks to extend the utility of applying HSI to human pedestrian detection using the reflective solar spectral range between 400-2500 nm. A phenomenological investigation of a novel scheme to differentiate between pedestrians is studied. By applying the basics of detection theory, this research focuses on being able to differentiate between pedestrians, as well as background materials. Specifically, this research explores the likelihood of detecting and differentiating pedestrians based on four defined subregions comprised of the exposed hair, skin, and the fabrics used for shirts and trousers. The scope of this work encompassed detecting a pedestrian of interest outdoors among other pedestrians in an urban environment consisting of a mixture of asphalt, concrete, grass, and trees. Two unique datasets were created during the course of this effort. One dataset was a collection of fully ground-truthed hyperspectral images of pedestrians in an urban environment. A second dataset was a synthetic rendering of the real-world ground truthed pedestrian scene developed using the Digital Imaging and Remote Sensing Image Generation (DIRSIG) model. Subregion separability analysis results, using spectral reflectance data, provided strong evidence that combining the observable spectral features of detectable subregions is a viable means of distinguishing between pedestrians. Further analysis using real-world HSI data demonstrated that the detection and classification of the pedestrian subregions when changes in illumination, location, and background occur within the field of view of a hyperspectral sensor is achievable with a greater than 60% accuracy. In addition to the direct detection and association analysis using the full spectral range, trade-offs in using spectral subsets of the reflectance spectrum were explored for their utility in detecting and classifying each of the pedestrian subregions. The results suggested that the clothing worn on a pedestrian's torso is the dominant feature for classification and either using a full spectral range (400-1000 nm) with 152 spectral bands or the visible to near-infrared spectral range (400-1000 nm) with 39 bands provides similar capability to the full spectral range for distinguishing among pedestrians with similar skin and clothing types."--Abstract.

Book Hyperspectral Remote Sensing

Download or read book Hyperspectral Remote Sensing written by Ruiliang Pu and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2017-08-16 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Advanced imaging spectral technology and hyperspectral analysis techniques for multiple applications are the key features of the book. This book will present in one volume complete solutions from concepts, fundamentals, and methods of acquisition of hyperspectral data to analyses and applications of the data in a very coherent manner. It will help readers to fully understand basic theories of HRS, how to utilize various field spectrometers and bioinstruments, the importance of radiometric correction and atmospheric correction, the use of analysis, tools and software, and determine what to do with HRS technology and data.

Book Remote Sensing of Urban Areas

Download or read book Remote Sensing of Urban Areas written by Carsten Jürgens and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Advanced Remote Sensing for Urban and Landscape Ecology

Download or read book Advanced Remote Sensing for Urban and Landscape Ecology written by Sk. Mustak and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-06-23 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book introduces the use of various remote sensing data such as microwave, hyperspectral and very high-resolution (VHR) satellite imagery; mapping techniques including pixel and object-based machine learning; and geostatistical modelling techniques including cellular automation, entropy and land fragmentation. Remote sensing plays a vital role in solving urban and environmental challenges at the landscape level. Globally, more than half of the urban population is facing severe environmental and social challenges, especially those relating to climate change, agricultural land encroachment, green infrastructure and environmental degradation, mobility due to rapid rural–urban transformation and anthropogenic interventions. Mapping and quantification of such threats at the landscape level are challenging for experts using traditional techniques; however, remote sensing technology provides diverse spatial data at a varying scale, volume and accessibility for mapping and modelling, and it also analyses challenges at urban and landscape levels. Together, they address challenges at urban and landscape levels to support the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).