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<p>Preface ix</p> <p>Synopsis of the Book xiii</p> <p>Acknowledgments xvii</p> <p>About the Author xix</p> <p><b>1 Urban Mapping Requirements 1</b></p> <p>1.1 Introduction 1</p> <p>1.2 Spectral Resolution Requirement 3</p> <p>1.3 Temporal Resolution Requirement 6</p> <p>1.4 Spatial Resolution Requirement 7</p> <p>1.5 Linear Spectral Mixture Analysis of Urban Landscape 9</p> <p>1.6 Summary 25</p> <p>References 26</p> <p><b>2 The Scale Issue 33</b></p> <p>2.1 Introduction 33</p> <p>2.2 Urban Land Mapping and Categorical Scale 34</p> <p>2.3 Observational Scale and Image Scene Models 36</p> <p>2.4 Operational Scale 40</p> <p>2.5 Scale Dependency of Urban Phenomena 41</p> <p>2.6 Summary 46</p> <p>References 47</p> <p><b>3 Building Extraction and Classification 55</b></p> <p>3.1 Introduction 55</p> <p>3.2 Building Reconstruction 56</p> <p>3.3 Building Classification 64</p> <p>References 66</p> <p><b>4 Estimation and Mapping of Impervious Surfaces 69</b></p> <p>4.1 Introduction 69</p> <p>4.2 Methods for Impervious Surface Extraction 70</p> <p>4.3 Case Studies 72</p> <p>4.4 Summary 85</p> <p>References 85</p> <p><b>5 Land Surface Temperature Data Generation 91</b></p> <p>5.1 Introduction 91</p> <p>5.2 Generating Daily Land Surface Temperature by Data Fusion 95</p> <p>5.3 Reconstructing Consistent LSTs at Landsat Resolution 111</p> <p>References 121</p> <p><b>6 Urban Heat Islands Modeling and Analysis 129</b></p> <p>6.1 Introduction 129</p> <p>6.2 Characterizing UHIs Using a Convolution Model 130</p> <p>6.3 Object‐Based Extraction of Hot Spots 138</p> <p>References 146</p> <p><b>7 Estimation of Urban Surface Energy Fluxes 151</b></p> <p>7.1 Introduction 151</p> <p>7.2 Data and Methodology 154</p> <p>7.3 Heat Fluxes in Four Seasons 160</p> <p>7.4 Heat Fluxes by LULC Type 162</p> <p>7.5 Extreme Values of Heat Fluxes 164</p> <p>7.6 Anthropogenic Heat Discharge 166</p> <p>7.7 Summary 167</p> <p>References 169</p> <p><b>8 Cities at Night 175</b></p> <p>8.1 Introduction 175</p> <p>8.2 Detecting Urban Extent Changes 177</p> <p>8.3 Spatiotemporal Pattern of Energy Consumption in United States and China 185</p> <p>References 197</p> <p><b>9 Urban Runoff Modeling and Prediction 201</b></p> <p>9.1 Introduction 201</p> <p>9.2 Estimating Composite CN and Simulating Urban Surface Runoff 205</p> <p>9.3 Surface Water Quality and Urban Land‐Cover Changes 212</p> <p>References 227</p> <p><b>10 Urban Ecology of West Nile Virus 233</b></p> <p>10.1 Introduction 233</p> <p>10.2 Research Background 235</p> <p>10.3 Effect of Landscape and Socioeconomic Conditions on WNV Dissemination in Chicago 236</p> <p>10.4 WNV‐Risk Areas in Southern California, 2007–2009 247</p> <p>References 260</p> <p><b>11 Impacts of Urbanization on Land Surface Temperature and Water Quality 267</b></p> <p>11.1 Introduction 267</p> <p>11.2 Impact of Urbanization‐Induced Land‐Use and Land‐Cover Change on LST 269</p> <p>11.3 Simulating the Impacts of Future Land‐Use and Climate Changes on Surface Water Quality 283</p> <p>11.4 Summary 299</p> <p>References 300</p> <p><b>12 Remote Sensing of Socioeconomic Attributes 307</b></p> <p>12.1 Introduction 307</p> <p>12.2 Population Estimation Using Landsat ETM+ Imagery 312</p> <p>12.3 Assessing Urban Environmental Quality Change 322</p> <p>References 337</p> <p>Index 343</p>

<p><b>QIHAO WENG, Ph<small>.</small>D., IEEE Fellow,</b> is the Director of the Center for Urban and Environmental Change and a Professor at Indiana State University. He worked as a Senior Fellow at the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center from 2008 to 2009. Weng is currently an Editor-in-Chief of ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry & Remote Sensing, and the Lead of GEO Global Urban Observation and Information Initiative.

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