Urban Remote Sensing

List of Contributors ix

Authors Biography xv

Preface xxvii

Part I Introduction

1 Progress in Urban Remote Sensing: An Overview 3
Xiaojun Yang

Part II Sensors and Systems for Urban Areas

2 Examining Urban Built-up Volume: Three-Dimensional Analyses with Lidar and Radar Data 17
Adam J. Mathews and Son V. Nghiem

3 Opportunities and Challenges of Unmanned Aircraft Systems for Urban Applications 47
Feilin Lai, Austin Bush, Xiaojun Yang, and David Merrick

4 Methods of Social Sensing for Urban Studies 71
Yu Liu, Song Gao, Yihong Yuan, Fan Zhang, Chaogui Kang, Yuhao Kang, and Keli Wang

5 Urban Remote Sensing Using Ground-Based Street View Images 91
Xiaojiang Li

6 Spatial Distribution of City Tweets and Their Densities 115
Bin Jiang, Ding Ma, Junjun Yin, and Mats Sandberg

7 Integrating Remote Sensing and Social Sensing to Examine Socioeconomic Dynamics: A Case Study of Twitter and Nighttime Light Imagery 131
Guofeng Cao and Naizhuo Zhao

Part III Algorithms and Techniques for Urban Attribute Extraction

8 Deep Learning for Urban and Landscape Mapping from Remotely Sensed Imagery 153
Feilin Lai, Atharva Sharma, Xiuwen Liu, and Xiaojun Yang

9 Google Earth Engine Advancing Urban Land Change Science 175
Le Wang, Dameng Yin, Jinyan Tian, and Ying Lu

10 Use of Image Endmember Libraries for Multi-Sensor, Multi-Scale, and Multi-Site Mapping of Urban Areas 189
Frank Canters, Sam Cooper, Jeroen Degerickx, Uta Heiden, Marianne Jilge, Akpona Okujeni, Frederik Priem, Ben Somers, and Sebastian van der Linden

11 Satellite Monitoring of Urbanization and Environmental Impacts in Stockholm, Sweden, Through a Multiscale Approach 217
Dorothy Furberg and Yifang Ban

Part IV Urban Socioeconomic Applications

12 Global Monitoring with the Atlas of Urban Expansion 247
Alejandro Blei and Shlomo Angel

13 Effect of Image Classification Accuracy on Dasymetric Population Estimation 283
Jacob McKee and Eric Weber

14 Mapping the Morphology of Urban Deprivation: The Role of Remote Sensing for Developing a Global Slum Repository 305
Monika Kuffer, Taïs Grippa, Claudio Persello, Hannes Taubenbock, Karin Pfeffer, and Richard Sliuzas

15 The City is the Medium and Satellite Imagery Are a Prism: Conceptualizing Urban Conflict Damage Monitoring with Multitemporal Remote Sensing Data 325
Jamon Van Den Hoek

Part V Urban Environmental Applications

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
Tomohiro Oda, Miguel O. Roman, 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

17 Thermal Infrared Imaging of the Urban Landscape to Understand Urban Microclimate 369
Jinxin Yang, Massimo Menenti, Man S. Wong, Zhifeng Wu, Xiaoying Ouyang, Yong Xu, and Sawaid Abbas

18 Monitoring Air Pollution in the Urban Environment by Remote Sensing 391
Alexandra A. Chudnovsky

19 Characterizing After-Rain Standing Waters in Urban Built Environments Through a Multilevel Image Analysis 423
Tzai-Hung Wen, Hao-Yu Liao, Kai-Ling Yang, and Tzu-Hsin Karen Chen

20 Remote Sensing and Urban Green Infrastructure: A Synthesis of Current Applications and New Advances 447
Yanhua Chen, Giovanni Sanesi, Xun Li, Wendy Y. Chen, and Raffaele Lafortezza

21 Remote Sensing for Urban Sustainability Research and Sustainable Development Goals: Green Space, Public Recreation Space, and Urban Climate 469
Arthur Lehner and Thomas Blaschke

Index 495