Books in the Remote Sensing Applications Series series

Edited by a PECASE award recipient, this book provides unrivaled coverage of the issues unique to coastal environments. It presents the best available data for measuring and monitoring coastal zones and explains how to use this data to address current issues in coastal zone management.

Cities and towns are the original producers of many of the global environmental problems related to waste disposal, air and water pollution. There is a rapidly growing need for technologies that will enable monitoring of the world's natural resources and urban assets, and managing exposure to natural and man-made risks. The Group on Earth Observ

This book emphasizes the most advanced remote sensing systems and algorithms for image processing, enhancement, feature extraction, data fusion, image classification, image-based modeling, image-based sampling design, map accuracy assessment and quality control. It also discusses their applications for evaluation of natural resources, including

This book discusses the fundamentals of land-use and land-cover characterization, mapping, and monitoring using remote sensing technology. After covering the basic concepts and history, it presents state-of-the-art methods and techniques in data acquisition, preprocessing, classification, image interpretation, and accuracy assessment. It also in

Expertly written and edited, this book focuses on mapping, data extraction, and modeling techniques specific to remote sensing of impervious surfaces. It introduces remote sensing digital image processing techniques for estimating and mapping impervious surfaces in urban and rural areas. Presenting modeling tools and algorithms for data ext

This second edition reflects new developments in satellite sensors, image processing methods and techniques, and the applications of urban remote sensing to meet societal and economic challenges at this time.

Remote Sensing for Sustainability introduces the current state of the art remote sensing knowledge integral for monitoring the world's natural resources and environments, managing exposure to natural disasters and man-made risks, and helping understand the sustainability and productivity of natural ecosystems. This comp

Urban impervious surfaces include any man-made surfaces such as roads, parking lots, and rooftops which prevent rainwater from infiltrating into the soil. This book investigates the state of the art of remote sensing of impervious surfaces by summarizing the environmental and socioeconomic impacts of impervious surfaces, the methods of imperviou

Integrating Scale in Remote Sensing and GIS serves as the most comprehensive documentation of the scientific and methodological advances that have taken place in integrating scale and remote sensing. It demonstrates new developments in the concept of scale within the purview of the "science of scale" for multispatial, multitempo

Featuring various hands-on examples to provide understanding of this new approach, Multispectral Image Analysis Using the Object-Oriented Paradigm shows how to extract information from remotely sensed data for applications in agriculture, visual simulation, civil government mapping, forestry, fire risk assessment, and more. This bo

As debates about climate change and sustainability intensify, national parks and other protected lands become more important as indicators of ecosystem conditions. Providing a suite of remote sensing-based approaches for the protected lands around the world, this book addresses contemporary issues in monitoring, conservation planning, and ecosystem forecasting. Case studies explore remote sensing applications and examine advanced remote sensing technologies, including airborne and spaceborne high spatial resolution imageries, multispectral and multitemporal time series data, satellite interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR), and the integration of remote sensing and field measurements for information extraction and modeling.

This book introduces the fundamentals of LiDAR (Light Ranging and Detection) remote sensing, LiDAR data processing and analysis methods and applications of LiDAR in forestry and vegetation mapping, urban environments, geosciences, natural hazards mapping and archaeological survey.

A complete review of practical mapping technologies based on advanced remote sensing data and methods, this book provides approaches for estimating irrigated and rainfed cropland areas and their water use on a national, continental, or global basis. It offers case studies from a variety of continents highlighting the subtle requirements of each.

Advanced imaging spectral technology and hyperspectral analysis techniques for multiple applications are the key features of the book. This book will present, in one volume, complete solutions from concepts, fundamentals, and methods of acquisition of hyperspectral data to analyses and applications of the data in a very coherent manner.

Urban impervious surfaces include any man-made surfaces such as roads, parking lots, and rooftops which prevent rainwater from infiltrating into the soil. This book investigates the state of the art of remote sensing of impervious surfaces by summarizing the environmental and socioeconomic impacts of impervious surfaces, the methods of impervious surface estimation using remote sensing technology, and challenges of remote sensing in tropical and subtropical regions. It pays special attention to the seasonal effects of impervious surface estimation in tropical and subtropical areas.

As more natural lands are transformed into urban lands with more people in urban areas, it is important to understand how these environmental changes may impact living conditions as well as the ecosystem. This book summarizes satellite observing capacities and the demand for consistent and continuous local, regional, and global observation data.

Featuring contributors from 17 countries, this book presents the advances in environmental remote sensing. It provides the developments in remote sensing data and sensor systems, paying attention to LIDAR, high spatial-resolution sensing, hyperspectral sensing, and data fusion of various sensors.

Bringing a fresh perspective to remote sensing, object-based image analysis is a paradigm shift from the traditional pixel-based approach. This work reviews the image analysis methods and demonstrates advantages to improve information extraction from imagery.

Emphasizing practical mapping technologies based on remote sensing, this book offers actionable approaches for estimating water use from irrigated and rain-fed croplands on a national, continental, or global basis. It offers case studies from a variety of continents highlighting the subtle requirements of each.

Presenting a tutorial on the fundamentals of hyperspectral remote sensing, this book provides a discussion of its applications to agriculture, environmental monitoring, petroleum geology and other areas. It explains the underlying principles that lead to the creation of a remote sensing image, offering an understanding of what may or may not work.

Provides coverage of the issues unique to coastal environments. This book presents data for measuring and monitoring coastal zones and explains how decision makers and resource managers can use this data to address contemporary issues in coastal zone management.

Presenting the fundamentals of remote sensing at an introductory level, this book explores all major aspects of hyperspectral image acquisition, exploitation, interpretation, and applications. It introduces spectral radiometry concepts, covers imaging spectrometers, and addresses atmospheric interactions.