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Urban Remote Sensing [2011]

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Part Introduction
3
What is Urban Remote Sensing?
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Part Introduction
15
Use of Archival Landsat Imagery to Monitor Urban Spatial Growth
35
Limits and Challenges of Optical Very‐High‐Spatial‐Resolution Satellite Remote Sensing for Urban Applications
49
Potential of Hyperspectral Remote Sensing for Analyzing the Urban Environment
63
Very‐High‐Resolution Spaceborne Synthetic Aperture Radar and Urban Areas: Looking into Details of a Complex Environment
75
3D Building Reconstruction from Airborne Lidar Point Clouds Fused with Aerial Imagery
93
Part Introduction
95
Parameterizing Neural Network Models to Improve Land Classification Performance
111
Characterizing Urban Subpixel Composition Using Spectral Mixture Analysis
129
An Object‐Oriented Pattern Recognition Approach for Urban Classification
141
Spatial Enhancement of Multispectral Images on Urban Areas
155
Exploring the Temporal Lag Between the Structure and Function of Urban Areas
163
Part Introduction
165
A Pluralistic Approach to Defining and Measuring Urban Sprawl
183
Small Area Population Estimation with High‐Resolution Remote Sensing and Lidar
195
Dasymetric Mapping for Population and Sociodemographic Data Redistribution
211
Who's in the Dark—Satellite Based Estimates of Electrification Rates
225
Integrating Remote Sensing and GIS for Environmental Justice Research
239
Part Introduction
241
Remote Sensing of High Resolution Urban Impervious Surfaces
255
Use of Impervious Surface Data Obtained from Remote Sensing in Distributed Hydrological Modeling of Urban Areas
275
Impacts of Urban Growth on Vegetation Carbon Sequestration
287
Characterizing Biodiversity in Urban Areas Using Remote Sensing
305
Urban Weather, Climate and Air Quality Modeling: Increasing Resolution and Accuracy Using Improved Urban Morphology
321
Part Introduction
323
Cellular Automata and Agent Base Models for Urban Studies: From Pixels to Cells to Hexa‐dpi's
335
Calibrating and Validating Cellular Automata Models of Urbanization
347
Agent‐Based Urban Modeling: Simulating Urban Growth and Subsequent Landscape Change in Suzhou, China
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Ecological Modeling in Urban Environments: Predicting Changes in Biodiversity in Response to Future Urban Development
371
Rethinking Progress in Urban Analysis and Modeling: Models, Metaphors, and Meaning
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Index
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