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<p>List of Contributors ix</p> <p>Authors Biography xv</p> <p>Preface xxvii</p> <p><b>Part I Introduction</b></p> <p>1 Progress in Urban Remote Sensing: An Overview 3<br /> <i>Xiaojun Yang</i></p> <p><b>Part II Sensors and Systems for Urban Areas</b></p> <p>2 Examining Urban Built-up Volume: Three-Dimensional Analyses with Lidar and Radar Data 17<br /> <i>Adam J. Mathews and Son V. Nghiem</i></p> <p>3 Opportunities and Challenges of Unmanned Aircraft Systems for Urban Applications 47<br /> <i>Feilin Lai, Austin Bush, Xiaojun Yang, and David Merrick</i></p> <p>4 Methods of Social Sensing for Urban Studies 71<br /> <i>Yu Liu, Song Gao, Yihong Yuan, Fan Zhang, Chaogui Kang,</i> <i>Yuhao Kang, and Keli Wang</i></p> <p>5 Urban Remote Sensing Using Ground-Based Street View Images 91<br /> <i>Xiaojiang Li</i></p> <p>6 Spatial Distribution of City Tweets and Their Densities 115<br /> <i>Bin Jiang, Ding Ma, Junjun Yin, and Mats Sandberg</i></p> <p>7 Integrating Remote Sensing and Social Sensing to Examine Socioeconomic Dynamics: A Case Study of Twitter and Nighttime Light Imagery 131<br /> <i>Guofeng Cao and Naizhuo Zhao</i></p> <p><b>Part III Algorithms and Techniques for Urban Attribute Extraction</b></p> <p>8 Deep Learning for Urban and Landscape Mapping from Remotely Sensed Imagery 153<br /> <i>Feilin Lai, Atharva Sharma, Xiuwen Liu, and Xiaojun Yang</i></p> <p>9 Google Earth Engine Advancing Urban Land Change Science 175<br /> <i>Le Wang, Dameng Yin, Jinyan Tian, and Ying Lu</i></p> <p>10 Use of Image Endmember Libraries for Multi-Sensor, Multi-Scale, and Multi-Site Mapping of Urban Areas 189<br /> <i>Frank Canters, Sam Cooper, Jeroen Degerickx, Uta Heiden, Marianne Jilge, Akpona Okujeni, Frederik Priem, Ben Somers, and Sebastian van der Linden</i></p> <p>11 Satellite Monitoring of Urbanization and Environmental Impacts in Stockholm, Sweden, Through a Multiscale Approach 217<br /> <i>Dorothy Furberg and Yifang Ban</i></p> <p><b>Part IV Urban Socioeconomic Applications</b></p> <p>12 Global Monitoring with the <i>Atlas of Urban Expansion </i>247<br /> <i>Alejandro Blei and Shlomo Angel</i></p> <p>13 Effect of Image Classification Accuracy on Dasymetric Population Estimation 283<br /> <i>Jacob McKee and Eric Weber</i></p> <p>14 Mapping the Morphology of Urban Deprivation: The Role of Remote Sensing for Developing a Global Slum Repository 305<br /> <i>Monika Kuffer, Taïs Grippa, Claudio Persello, Hannes Taubenböck, Karin Pfeffer, and Richard Sliuzas</i></p> <p>15 The City is the Medium and Satellite Imagery Are a Prism: Conceptualizing Urban Conflict Damage Monitoring with Multitemporal Remote Sensing Data 325<br /> <i>Jamon Van Den Hoek</i></p> <p><b>Part V Urban Environmental Applications</b></p> <p>16 US Cities in the Dark: Mapping Man-Made Carbon Dioxide Emissions Over the Contiguous US Using NASA’s Black Marble Nighttime Lights Product 337<br /> <i>Tomohiro 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. Kalb</i></p> <p>17 Thermal Infrared Imaging of the Urban Landscape to Understand Urban Microclimate 369<br /> <i>Jinxin Yang, Massimo Menenti, Man S. Wong, Zhifeng Wu, Xiaoying Ouyang, Yong Xu, and Sawaid Abbas</i></p> <p>18 Monitoring Air Pollution in the Urban Environment by Remote Sensing 391<br /> <i>Alexandra A. Chudnovsky</i></p> <p>19 Characterizing After-Rain Standing Waters in Urban Built Environments Through a Multilevel Image Analysis 423<br /> <i>Tzai-Hung Wen, Hao-Yu Liao, Kai-Ling Yang, and Tzu-Hsin Karen Chen</i></p> <p>20 Remote Sensing and Urban Green Infrastructure: A Synthesis of Current Applications and New Advances 447<br /> <i>Yanhua Chen, Giovanni Sanesi, Xun Li, Wendy Y. Chen, and Raffaele Lafortezza</i></p> <p>21 Remote Sensing for Urban Sustainability Research and Sustainable Development Goals: Green Space, Public Recreation Space, and Urban Climate 469<br /> <i>Arthur Lehner and Thomas Blaschke</i></p> <p>Index 495 </p>

<p><b>About the Editor</b></p> <p><b>Dr Xiaojun Yang</b> is a tenured Full Professor of Geography in the College of Social Sciences and Public Policy at Florida State University, USA.

<p>The second edition of <b>Urban Remote Sensing</b> 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.</p> <p>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. <ul><li>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.</li> <li>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.</li></ul> <p><b>Urban Remote Sensing, Second Edition</b> 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.

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