CONTENTS
Preface ix
Editors xvii
Contributors xix
SECTION I Data, Sensors, and Systems Considerations and Algorithms for Urban Feature Extraction
Chapter 1 The Global Urban Footprint 3
Thomas Esch, Wieke Heldens, and Andreas Hirner
Chapter 2 Development of On-Demand Human Settlement Mapping System using Historical Satellite Archives 15
Hiroyuki Miyazaki and Ryosuke Shibasaki
Chapter 3 Morphological Building Index (MBI) and Its Applications to Urban Areas 33
Xin Huang and Tao Zhang
SECTION II Assessing and modeling urban landscape compositions, patterns and structures
Chapter 4 Stereo-Based Building Roof Mapping in Urban Off-Nadir VHR Satellite Images: Challenges and Solutions 53
Alaeldin Suliman and Yun Zhang
Chapter 5 Beyond Built-Up: The Internal Makeup of Urban Areas 83
Benjamin Bechtel, Martino Pesaresi, Aneta J. Florczyk, and Gerald Mills
Chapter 6 Urban Change Detection Utilizing High Resolution Optical Images Taken from Different Viewing-Angles and Different Platforms 125
Shabnam Jabari and Yun Zhang
SECTION III Monitoring, analyzing, and modeling urban growth
Chapter 7 Urbanisation in India: Patterns, Visualisation of Cities and Greenhouse Gas Inventory for Developing an Urban Observatory 151
Bharath Haridas Aithal, Maysore Chandrashekar Chandan, Shivamurthy Vinay, and T.V. Ramachandra Chapter 8 Mapping Imperious Surface in the Greater Hanoi Area, Vietnam from Time Series Landsat Image, 1988 – 2015 173
Hung Q. Ha and Qihao Weng
Chapter 9 City in desert: Mapping subpixel urban impervious surface area in a desert environment using spectral unmixing and machine learning methods 195
Chengbin Deng and Weiying Lin
Chapter 10 Application of Remote Sensing and Cellular Automata Model to Analyze and Simulate Urban Density Changes 213
Santiago Linares and Natasha Picone
SECTION IV Urban Planning and Socioeconomic Applications
Chapter 11 Developing Multiscale HEAT Scores from H-Res Airborne Thermal Infrared Imagery to Support Urban Energy Efficiency: Challenges Moving Forward 235
Bharanidharan Hemachandran, Geoffrey J. Hay, Mir Mustafiz Rahman, Isabelle Couloigner, Yilong Zhang, Bilal Karim, Tak S. Fung, and Christopher D. Kyle
Chapter 12 Air Quality and Health Monitoring In Urban Areas Using EO and Clinical Data 271
Andrea Marinoni and Paolo Gamba
Chapter 13 Urban Green Mapping and Valuation 287
Stefan Lang, Thomas Blaschke, Gyula Kothencz, and Daniel Hoelbling
Index 309