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Remote Sensing for Sustainability Edited by Qihao Weng



Remote Sensing for Sustainability Edited by Qihao Weng



Contents
Foreword ...................................................................................................................ix
Preface.......................................................................................................................xi
Acknowledgments ...................................................................................................xix
Editor ......................................................................................................................xxi
Contributors ......................................................................................................... xxiii

Section i Remote Sensing for Sustainable cities

Chapter 1 Extraction of Parameters from Remote Sensing Data
for Environmental Indices for Urban Sustainability ............................3
John C. Trinder

Chapter 2 Earth Observation for Urban and Spatial Planning ...........................29
Mattia Marconcini, Annekatrin Metz, Thomas Esch,
and Julian Zeidler


Chapter 3 Assessment of Urban Growth in the Pearl River Delta, China,
Using Time Series Landsat Imagery .................................................. 45
Lei Zhang and Qihao Weng

Chapter 4 InSAR Monitoring of Land Subsidence for Sustainable Urban
Planning ............................................................................................. 61

Abduwasit Ghulam, Mark Grzovic, Maitiniyazi Maimaitijiang,
and Mamat Sawut

Chapter 5 A Tale of Two Cities: Urbanization in Greensboro,
North Carolina, and Guiyang, Guizhou, China ................................. 81
Honglin Xiao and Qihao Weng

Section ii Remote Sensing for Sustainable natural Resources


Chapter 6 Role of Remote Sensing in Sustainable Grassland Management:
A Review and Case Studies for a Mixed-Grass Prairie Ecosystem ... 103
Alexander Tong, Bing Lu, Yuhong He, and Xulin Guo

Chapter 7 Classifying Tree Species Using Fine Spatial Resolution Imagery
to Support the Conservation of an Endangered Bird Species in Hawaii........................................................................................... 121
Qi Chen

Chapter 8 Remote Sensing of Forest Damage by Diseases and Insects ........... 145
Gang Chen and Ross K. Meentemeyer

Chapter 9 Monitoring Water Quality with Remote Sensing Image Data ......... 163
Bunkei Matsushita, Wei Yang, Lalu Muhamad Jaelani,

Fajar Setiawan, and Takehiko Fukushima


Section iii Remote Sensing for Sustainable environmental Systems

Chapter 10 Urban Air Quality Studies Using EO Data ...................................... 193
Xuefei Hu

Chapter 11 Heat Hazard Monitoring with Satellite-Derived Land Surface
Temperature ...................................................................................... 211
Yitong Jiang and Qihao Weng

Chapter 12 Remote Sensing Identification of Threshold Zones along
a Mediterranean to Arid Climatic Gradient .....................................229
Maxim Shoshany


Chapter 13 Soil Moisture Using Optical Remote Sensing and Ground
Measurements: A Case Study from Pakistan ................................... 243
Mudassar Umar, Siraj Munir, Iftikhar Ali, Salman Qureshi,

Claudia Notarnicola, Said Rahman, and Qihao Weng

Section iV Remote Sensing for Sustainable energy

Chapter 14 Earth Observation and Its Potential to Implement a Sustainable
Energy Supply—A German Perspective ..........................................269
Thomas Esch, Markus Tum, and Annekatrin Metz


Chapter 15 Use of Nighttime Imaging Data to Assess Decadal Trends
in Energy Use in China ....................................................................277
Yanhua Xie and Qihao Weng

Chapter 16 Support of Wind Resource Modeling Using Earth
Observation—A European Perspective on the Status
and Future Options ...........................................................................297
Thomas Esch, Charlotte Bay Hasager, Paul Elsner,
Janik Deutscher, Manuela Hirschmugl, Annekatrin Metz,
and Achim Roth


Chapter 17 Assessing Solar Energy Potential and Building Energy Use
in Indianapolis Using Geospatial Techniques .................................. 317
Yuanfan Zheng and Qihao Weng

Index ...................................................................................................................... 351


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