Urban Remote Sensing

About the EditorDr Xiaojun Yang is a tenured Full Professor of Geography in the College of Social Sciences and Public Policy at Florida State University, USA.

• List of Contributors ixAuthors Biography xvPreface xxviiPart I Introduction1 Progress in Urban Remote Sensing: An Overview 3Xiaojun YangPart II Sensors and Systems for Urban Areas2 Examining Urban Built-up Volume: Three-Dimensional Analyses with Lidar and Radar Data 17Adam J. Mathews and Son V. Nghiem3 Opportunities and Challenges of Unmanned Aircraft Systems for Urban Applications 47Feilin Lai, Austin Bush, Xiaojun Yang, and David Merrick4 Methods of Social Sensing for Urban Studies 71Yu Liu, Song Gao, Yihong Yuan, Fan Zhang, Chaogui Kang, Yuhao Kang, and Keli Wang5 Urban Remote Sensing Using Ground-Based Street View Images 91Xiaojiang Li6 Spatial Distribution of City Tweets and Their Densities 115Bin Jiang, Ding Ma, Junjun Yin, and Mats Sandberg7 Integrating Remote Sensing and Social Sensing to Examine Socioeconomic Dynamics: A Case Study of Twitter and Nighttime Light Imagery 131Guofeng Cao and Naizhuo ZhaoPart III Algorithms and Techniques for Urban Attribute Extraction8 Deep Learning for Urban and Landscape Mapping from Remotely Sensed Imagery 153Feilin Lai, Atharva Sharma, Xiuwen Liu, and Xiaojun Yang9 Google Earth Engine Advancing Urban Land Change Science 175Le Wang, Dameng Yin, Jinyan Tian, and Ying Lu10 Use of Image Endmember Libraries for Multi-Sensor, Multi-Scale, and Multi-Site Mapping of Urban Areas 189Frank Canters, Sam Cooper, Jeroen Degerickx, Uta Heiden, Marianne Jilge, Akpona Okujeni, Frederik Priem, Ben Somers, and Sebastian van der Linden11 Satellite Monitoring of Urbanization and Environmental Impacts in Stockholm, Sweden, Through a Multiscale Approach 217Dorothy Furberg and Yifang BanPart IV Urban Socioeconomic Applications12 Global Monitoring with the Atlas of Urban Expansion 247Alejandro Blei and Shlomo Angel13 Effect of Image Classification Accuracy on Dasymetric Population Estimation 283Jacob McKee and Eric Weber14 Mapping the Morphology of Urban Deprivation: The Role of Remote Sensing for Developing a Global Slum Repository 305Monika Kuffer, Taïs Grippa, Claudio Persello, Hannes Taubenböck, Karin Pfeffer, and Richard Sliuzas15 The City is the Medium and Satellite Imagery Are a Prism: Conceptualizing Urban Conflict Damage Monitoring with Multitemporal Remote Sensing Data 325Jamon Van Den HoekPart V Urban Environmental Applications16 US Cities in the Dark: Mapping Man-Made Carbon Dioxide Emissions Over the Contiguous US Using NASA’s Black Marble Nighttime Lights Product 337Tomohiro 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. Kalb17 Thermal Infrared Imaging of the Urban Landscape to Understand Urban Microclimate 369Jinxin Yang, Massimo Menenti, Man S. Wong, Zhifeng Wu, Xiaoying Ouyang, Yong Xu, and Sawaid Abbas18 Monitoring Air Pollution in the Urban Environment by Remote Sensing 391Alexandra A. Chudnovsky19 Characterizing After-Rain Standing Waters in Urban Built Environments Through a Multilevel Image Analysis 423Tzai-Hung Wen, Hao-Yu Liao, Kai-Ling Yang, and Tzu-Hsin Karen Chen20 Remote Sensing and Urban Green Infrastructure: A Synthesis of Current Applications and New Advances 447Yanhua Chen, Giovanni Sanesi, Xun Li, Wendy Y. Chen, and Raffaele Lafortezza21 Remote Sensing for Urban Sustainability Research and Sustainable Development Goals: Green Space, Public Recreation Space, and Urban Climate 469Arthur Lehner and Thomas BlaschkeIndex 495