Description
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
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction to earth observation in urban monitoring Chapter 2: Major challenges in the urbanizing world and role of earth observations for livable citiesChapter 3: The role of nocturnal earth observation in urban environment monitoringChapter 4: Surveying techniques for urban areasChapter 5: Geoinformation for integrated urban water resource managementChapter 6: Advances in remote sensing in measuring urban heat island effect and its managementChapter 7: Impact of seasonality and land use changes on urban heat island using earth-observing satellitesChapter 8: Using PlanetScope imagery and GEOBIA to map urban green spacesChapter 9: Deep learning approach for monitoring urban land cover changesChapter 10: Earth observation applications for urban mapping and monitoring: research prospects, opportunities and challengesChapter 11: Earth observations and AIML for urban growth modelingChapter 12: Monitoring urban ecological conditions using remote sensingChapter 13: Landscape modeling for management of the urban environment .Chapter 14: Artificial intelligence for sustainable urban climate studiesChapter 15: Geoinformation for urban Geoenvironmental hazard-risk and vulnerability assessmentChapter 16: Nature-based solutions and ecological urban planning and design for the sustainable urban environmentsChapter 17: Shrinking urban green spaces, increasing vulnerability: solving the conundrum of the demand-supply gap in an urbanizing cityChapter 18: Earth observations for urban policies and future pathways for urban environmental research
